Sepik - Kandimbong On the Ancestor Statuary from the Coastal Sepik Region

 The art producing cultures of the Sepik river lie almost as a separate unexplored continent on the eastern edge of the navigated world until about 1885, unlike the tribal art from Africa with its major civilizations criss-crossed by ancient caravan routes for thousands of years. The cultures living along the Sepik river had neither the use of metal nor a written language and their first contact with the West occurred than one hundred and twenty years ago, in 1885 with the exploration of the mouth of the Sepik by Otto Finsch. It is therefore not surprising that their art forms strike as closer to “primeval” Stone Age civilization.

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