Ancient PNG bark painting Sepik Papua New Guinea Tribal hand painting. By Grace
Ancient PNG Sand painting Sepik Papua New Guinea Tribal hand painting. By Grace Ochero Dunstan Kambot, East Sepik Province Story board "The Lifestyle" won first prize in category 9 at the 99 pine Rivers Seventh Annual Art Awards. Story Boards are found at Kambot and Sumundo Village on Keram river in Sepik Province, PNG. Along the Keram River Sprits and ancestors were depicted traditionally on Sago Spathe or Bark as paintings. However, the bark is easily broken and easily rubbed off during packing and transporting.
Artefact dealers asked Kambot people during the sixties to produce a more durable form of artwork. This request resulted in more than shift from the bark paintings to carved wooden boards. Whereas bark paintings were wholly spirit boards, the wooden board of today are simply depictions of everyday village life with spirit figures being shown very occasionally on the men's house gables.
Village scenes simply depict women, men, children and their domestic animals going on with their daily lives, sitting around chatting, cooking, pig feasting, traditional ceremonies, events, storytelling, Bride price, funerals, fishing, crocodile hunting, children playing, dogs scavenging left over food, men carving, women weaving, feeding children and many other everyday life events. This item is in the category "Antiques\Ethnographic\Pacific Islands & Oceania". The seller is "rofra-982" and is located in this country: AU.
This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Product Type: Carvings
- Region of Origin: Pacific Islands & Oceania