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- Unknown / Unspecified
Ceremonial dance board
natural earth pigments on wood
191 x 13 x 3 cm
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- Provenance
- Private collection SA
- Artwork story
- Early contact dance board, thought to be last used in a ceremony during the 1920s. The front is replete with unusual parallel striated incisions and with a site specific ochre snake design applied, traditionally reapplied for each ceremonial enactment. The back is replete with a very fine adzed pattern. This rare ceremonial object is thought to have been collected immediately after a ceremony conducted in the 1920s.