New Guinea Lumi Bowl
#160028

Lumi wooden bowl, inland of Sissano, West Sepik Province, New Guinea. Fantastic, undulating, archaic shape with unique pitcher feature and overall boat like contours. This is a remote region not known for its arts. Like most of the bowls for the region, this bowl is pre-contact, carved with non-metal tools. This bowl would likely have been used as mortar for pounding taro and sweet potato. Some nails hammered inside of the bowl at a later date as apparent native repair. Extremely Rare.

Weight: 2.5 kg / 5 lbs 8 oz
Length: 46 cm / 18.2 in
Width: 23 cm / 9 in
Height: 20 cm / 7.8 in


$1,500

Sale Price: $900