Model of a Hakatu ata Vaka - Fishing Canoe
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Marquesas Islands, Polynesia
Wood, 72 cm
Provenance:
Collection Vérité, Paris (label on the inside)
Jean-Paul Morin collection, Paris
Pierre Bergé & Associés, 4 November 2011, lot 246
Property from a Princely collection
This scale model for a canoe is richly decorated with the typical geometrical motifs and symbolic figures that are to be found in the traditional tattoos of the Marquesas Islands. The bow is adorned with a stylized face.
A similar model canoe belongs to the collection of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (inv.71.1930.51.19.1).
Wood, 72 cm
Provenance:
Collection Vérité, Paris (label on the inside)
Jean-Paul Morin collection, Paris
Pierre Bergé & Associés, 4 November 2011, lot 246
Property from a Princely collection
This scale model for a canoe is richly decorated with the typical geometrical motifs and symbolic figures that are to be found in the traditional tattoos of the Marquesas Islands. The bow is adorned with a stylized face.
A similar model canoe belongs to the collection of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (inv.71.1930.51.19.1).
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Model of a Hakatu ata Vaka - Fishing Canoe
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