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Ritual ladle, 19th–early 20th century
Wood
36.5 cm (14 3/8 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.347
Artist Biography: (none)
PROVENANCE: "Collected by Ben Tursch in Gerup village in the 1960s. Baudouin de Grunne Collection, Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium." (Catalog #369, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 144.)
EXHIBITIONS: 1979 - Maison de la Culture de Woluwe Saint-Pierre, Brussels, 1979, "Art Papou."
PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "According to Bodrogi, Biró reported in 1899 and Neuhass in 1911 that these ladles made of a single piece of wood were only used to serve taro mash at important ceremonies such as balum feasts. (See pl. 387 regarding more on the balum spirit.) These highly decorated ceremonial ladles are a traditional art form in the Huon Gulf. "Taro mash is a mixture of taro and coconut with the addition of oil, floating in cocount milk" (Bodrogi, 1961: 106). The scoop is partly used for mixing the substances in preparing the mash and partly to dish out the end result (see Ter Keurs, 1989, fig. 4). There may originally have been a handle extending upward from a damaged area behind the head on this object." (Catalog #369, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 144.)
1979 - de Grunne, 1979, no. 82.
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