Estimate: $200 - $400
Price Realized: $320 Includes buyer's premium
An Australian Aboriginal carved ironwood ancestor totem figure created by a Tiwi Islands artisan, featuring an elongated geometric body decorated in traditional natural earth ochre pigments with fine cross-hatched rarrk patterns, a stylized bearded face, and a central circular motif, measuring 51 inches in height
ironwood, pigment
height: 51 inches
The Eugene and Dorothy Prakapas Estate, proceeds to benefit a scholarship fund at Yale University
Good overall condition; minor natural shrinkage splits, superficial scuffs to the wood surface, and typical light pigment flaking or chalkiness inherent to the natural ochre medium
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