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Couple in embrace, 19th–early 20th century
Wood, pigment
77.5 cm (30 1/2 in.)

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "This carving was probably installed in one of the highly decorated ceremonial houses that existed near Arape. The ancestors are portrayed in an affectionate pose and in a posture that implies sexual equality between the male and female. Both aspects are rather uncommon in New Guinea imagery. See Dirk Smidt's essay this volume. There is a female figure in a similar style in the Museo Preistorico Etnographico L. Pigorini, Rome (see Rocchi, 1971, no. 66)." (Catalogue #23, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 87.)

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