STANDING FIGURE - TANGALA,Ben Sisia, Libbia Village, Northern New Ireland. A Melanesian carved wood malangan, depicting a standing man holding a fish (Manau), the man wearing a polychrome decorated mask inset with shell eyes and a bush fiber wig and multiple horned headdress centering a white eagle, the fish standing upright with double fins, on a black-painted serrated wood base. Carved and painted wood (Alstonia Villosa), shell opercula, natural pigments, and bush fiber. Circa 1992 - 27 in. high. Estimate $700-900
PROVENANCE:
Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia Sale - May 27, 1993
EXHIBITION:
Malagans the Ceremonial Art of New Ireland, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, May 27 - July 24, 1993, illustrated on cover and back of catalogue
