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Food Pounder for a High Grade Elder

Galerie Meyer-Oceanic Art

Date 19th century

Epoque 1850-1900, 19th century

Origine Melanesia

Medium Wood

Dimension 80 x 9.2 x 6 cm (31¹/₂ x 3⁵/₈ x 2³/₈ inches)

A rare form of food pounder from a high Grade man decorated with two janus birds as the finial. Gaua Island, Banks Islands, Vanuatu, Melanesia.

Date: 19th century

Epoque: 1850-1900, 19th century

Origine: Melanesia

Medium: Wood

Dimension: 80 x 9.2 x 6 cm (31¹/₂ x 3⁵/₈ x 2³/₈ inches)

Literature: See Speiser, Felix: ETHNOLOGY OF VANUATU, AN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY STUDY. English translation of the original 1923 edition, Crawford-House Press, Bathurst, 1991, for a pounder with a single bird of identical type.

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