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Sawos Soup Dish

Galerie Meyer-Oceanic Art

Period 20th century

Origin New Guinea, Melanesia

Medium Fired and polychromed clay

A fine and large kamana, or soup bowl used by initiated men. The decor is composed of four stylized human faces – probably male - representing important spiritual ancestors. The figures are separated by geometric motifs. Koiwat Village style, Sawos People, Middle Sepik, P.N.G.  26 cm in diameter. 

Period: 20th century

Origin: New Guinea, Melanesia

Medium: Fired and polychromed clay

Literature: Ill.: OCEANIA N°8. FACES OF CLAY - THE POTTERY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Galerie Meyer, Paris, 1991, N° 19.

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