A VERY FINE MASSIM CANOE SPLASHBOARD

Provenance: Private Dutch collection

This element from a canoe is known as a splashboard It is carved from a single piece of flat wood. Intricately incised and decorated on one side only, it is composed of a central shaft with two mirroring volutes that spiral out and down to either side

Massim people, Papua New Guinea, Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province
Wood, 56 x 54 cm

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