Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 3377TLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 05, 2020 12:00PM
Description:
Micronesian Men's House Figure, Babelthuap Island, Palau, female figure named Dilukai, carved as a gable ornament for the bai or men's house, with shell inlay eyes and painted highlights, (age cracks),ht. 30 3/4, wd. 18 1/2 in.
Provenance: Collected on Babelthuap in 1946.
Estimate $2,000-3,000
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