OLD HEADHUNTERS HORN, Iatmul, Middle Sepik River

Chris Boylan Oceanic Art

Headhunting Horn, Iatmul, Middle Sepik River. Stone-carved, 19thC.

This old horn has a simplicity in form that is most common the much older Sepik carvings, when no metal tools were available. The strong head has a wonderful form and good detail; the area
below the trumpet’s blowing hole has simple “diamond shape” designs. The highlight in some ways of this object is the superb ancestral face carved near its base, and it would be this invocation of ancestral power that gives the headhunting horn its potency.

$3,800.00

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