Bangus Village, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

A Kwoma dance wand in the shape of a birds head known in the Kwoma language as a “Wamboi”. These ceremonial objects are used as a dance wand but also as a handle of a kind of ladle for making sago but attaching a coconut bowl to the bound section at the base. Decorated with raised and incised motif on the stem and traces of “trade” pigments. Weathered and encrusted patina, with a couple of stable age splits in fine condition. Mounted on a steel display stand.

Exhibited in the Melbourne Museum November 2006.

Height: 53 cm or 21 inches.
Price: SOLD