Two Massim splash boards

Two Massim splash boards

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea

with carved figures, birds and scrolls and with pigment,

26.5cm and 29cm high,

a Massim drum, with reptile skin and inset operculum shells, 35.5cm high, a Mendi, Southern Highlands basket with a hoop handle and a chain linked cover, 38cm high. (4)

Provenance

Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.

Collected in 1977 and 1978.