15) Gope board representing a generic ancestor. Papuan Gulf, New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania. Wood and pigments. 136.6 cm. 19th century. Field collected by Thomas Schultze Westrum at Kinomere Village on Urama Island in 1966. Subsequently in the Marcia & John Friede collection, Rye, NY; then private collection, Paris. Ill. : "Oceanic Art, Paris 2011" Michael Hamson, N° 13, pages 26/27.
The artist Georges Braque in his home at Varengeville in 1953 with a Gope board on the wall. Š Robert Doisneau/Rapho