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Lintel, Tikit, 20th century
Wood, pigment
25.4 x 287 x 15.2 cm (10 x 113 x 6.5 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.294

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Herbert Umlauff Collection, Sydney, obtained from missionaries; James Pongrass Collection, North Olmstead, Ohio." (Catalog #293, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 130.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The points below and separating the figures are stylized birds. A related lintel in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, is published in Koch, 1968, figs. 23-25. See also Kaeppler, Kaufmann, and Newton, 1997, fig. 859. Boiken lintels, like those of the Abelam, were attached to the facades of ceremonial house, immediately below a large triangular painting (ibid., fig. 861). Boiken ceremonial houses did not reach the impressive heights of their Abelam counterparts and their lintels were positioned more or less at eye level. Abelam lintels (see pl. 294) were usually placed in a much higher position (for comparison, see Swadling et al. 1988, figs. 188 and 190-94)." (Catalog #293, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 130.) 1998 - Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 1998, lot. 59.

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