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LOT 2403
Large Sepik Papuan Healing Figure Fragments
20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 - 5 3/4 in. (1.68 kg total, 5.8-14.5 cm).
Various types, one with old collector's label 'Big Healing Figure / Sepik Papua New Guinea / 1970 purchase / New Guinea Tribal Art / Netherlands'. [8, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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