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Food bowl, Kamana, 20th century
Clay, pigment
17.8 x 20.3 cm (7.5 x 8 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.416

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "Despite the fact that I have seen similar vessels assigned to the Kwoma, this one may be from Sawos. The Sawos villages Koiwat and Kamanggaui are famous for the refined incised patterns of their food bowls. The pots are made by women, using the coiling technique, but decorated by men by the chip-carving method (see May and Tuckson, 1982, figs. 9.19-9.31). Men also paint the bowls using earth pigments. The usually curvilinear motifs may include spirit or human faces and animal figures (ibid., 228. See also Egloff, 1977, 50-52)." (Catalog #338, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 138.)

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