A Superb Old New Guinea Food Bowl Boiken People East Sepik River Province of Papua New Guinea

A Superb Old New Guinea Food Bowl Boiken People in the Prince Alexander Mountain Area in the East Sepik River Province of Papua New Guinea

This beautiful old food bowl is from the Boiken People who live in the Prince Alexander Mountain Area in the East Sepik River Province of Papua New Guinea. The bowl is called Huamp in the Boiken language

This old bowl is carved in a deep oval shape and has a finely carved totemic Lizard Figure in high relief on the outside of the bowl.  It is a very beautiful Sculpture.

Usually, Boiken Bowls are of circular form and shallow, so this example is a rare form and has a dark old patina from long use and handling.  Old Bowls were often family heirlooms passed down through generations.

Bowls are something important that all cultures made and used throughout the world and time, they were necessary for humans to gather & prepare and serve food.

The bowl, a simple material object, is a basic domestic tool in most cultures of the world. It reveals much about the preparation, storage, presentation, and consumption of food – the whole cultural history of eating. The design and decoration of bowls also carry cultural meaning. Bowls often have a significant role in various rituals, forming the link between daily life and the world of mythology.

Boiken & other Sepik River cultures made many beautiful unitarian art objects like Bowls that were both functional and a way of honouring and making visible their ancestors on a daily basis.

Field collected in the 1980s and artwork has been displayed in my home for 35 years, it’s such a beautiful object I never get tired of looking at it.  On a fine custom-made stand to make it easy to display on a table or shelf.

We have many other beautiful Bowls from New Guinea, Micronesia & Polynesia. I always bought the most elegant forms when selecting artworks

Provenance: The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic Art

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