A KAMBOT BARK PAINTING

Provenance: Steijler Mission SVD, Father Höltker collected 1935-1938

Bark paintings are displayed in the gable ends of a Haus and sometimes over the whole ceiling and parts of the walls. The panels, called pangals, are made from flattened pieces cut from the thick sheath end of the sago palm leaf. Pigments are clays, charcoal, powdered lime.

Special price: € 475,-