Lot n° 291
Estimation :
450 - 450
EUR
Tikuna painting - Amazonia - Lot 291
Tikuna painting - Amazonia
Natural painting on wood bark (muriti).
Tikuna tribe, Amazonia (Colombia / Brazil / Peru).
XXᵉ century.
Size: 49 × 85 cm
The Tikuna, an Amerindian people living between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, use the bark of the muriti tree as a ritual and artistic medium. Their vegetable and mineral pigments give life to a mythological universe where birds, fish and forest spirits meet.
This work expresses the duality between the terrestrial and aquatic worlds through a symbolic animal scene.
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