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Ceremonial bowl, C-14 dating: 1520–1810 (95.4% probability)
Wood, traces of pigment
17.8 x 188.6 x 17.8 cm (7 x 74 1/4 x 7 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.194

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Nils Madsen Collection, Ambunti, Papua New Guinea." (Catalog #273, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 126.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The two heads suggest that, perhaps in earlier times, actual human heads were used in ceremonies involving dishes of this kind. There was a smaller, somewhat related object in the Haus der Volker und Kulturen at St. Augustin (near Bonn). It is shallow and not nearly as canoe-shaped as this one, but it has a carved human head at either end (the heads facing each other) and a bowl-shaped part in between the heads (personal observation). There is also a double-headed figure (with a head at either end but not juxtaposed) at the Museum der Kulturen, Basel (see Kaufmann, 2003, fig. 46 and 87), described as 'Mother of the soil and the worms.'" (Catalog #273, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 126.) 1995 - Meyer, 1995, cover and figs. 265-67.

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