A Superb Old New Guinea Stone Carved Bowl Lumi Area West Sepik Papua New Guinea

A Superb Old New Guinea Stone Carved Bowl Lumi Area West Sepik Papua New Guinea. Definitely dates from the 19th Century.

This ancient stone-carved food bowl is from the Gnau people, in the Lumi Area of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. The beautiful form with a deep oval bowl with a high relief diamond design on the bottom and a medial ridge going from end to end. The lugs on the side of the bowl are for hanging it up in the house when not in use.

The Gnau people live south of a steep plateau that rises straight up above Yangok mission station.  While very remote, the Gnau are of one of the few West Sepik cultures in which an ethnographic account has been written.  The British anthropologist/medical doctor Gilbert Lewis spent years in Rauit village in the late 1960s and early 1970s researching the people’s response to illness.  Little of Lewis’s account deals with ritual sculpture, but he does relate how carvings are fashioned to draw malignant spirits away from a sick person’s body.

Provenance: Old Collection Australia and The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic Art

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