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A small old Sepik Amulet figure, together with a ceremonial…
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Sydney
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8-May-2016
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A small old Sepik Amulet figure, together with a ceremonial Sepik lime stick figural finial, [2]. Provenance: both were collected by Andy Kugler in 1967. Kugler was a geologist working in New Guinea who prepared a collection a of artefacts that were loaned to the Museum of Primitive Art in New York (Now the Rockefeller wing of Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art). Kugler was a friend of Douglas Newton, former curator at the MET and Museum of Primitive Art and is mentioned several times in the seminal book on the upper Sepik Cultures 'crocodile & Cassowary' by the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, January 29, 1971 / Todd Barlin collection. 31 cm
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