Abelam Figurative Spear-Deborah Lipping Collection-New Guinea Art
Abelam Figurative Spear from the Southern Abelam area, the Wosera, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. This ancient piece is ex. Deborah Lipping Collection and published: Oceanic and Indonesian Art: Collectors’ Choice, ed. Harry Beran, Oceanic Art Society, 1998, p. 93. It is pre-contact, stone-carved, 19th century and is 98?” (249.2 cm) in height.