Santa Cruz Islands artist (Solomon Islands)
In the form of a highly stylized canoe, with two raised opposing abstracted ancestral heads, the whole decorated with classical linear patterning in black, with remnants of white pigments.
Ex. Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts; Sotheby’s Paris, June 11, 2008, Lot 50.
36.5″ high x 2.25″ wide x 3.25″ deep
on a 5″ wide x 7″ deep metal base
$2500