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NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S
NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S

NEW GUINEA PRIMITIVE MUSEUM TRIBAL ART: LAKE CHAMBRI, OLD CERAMIC POTTERY FROM THE AIBOM PEOPLE: EARTHTONES SERVING DISH FOR SAGO , BETEL OR GRUB, 16” x 7 1/2” COLLECTED IN THE LATE 1900’S

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OLDER SERVING  DISH  FOR SAGO , BETEL OR  GRUB 16” X 7 ½” X 2 ½”, 3.4 LBS.  VERY RARE.

Pottery is the most prolific craft of the Aibom people who live along the clay-rich Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. Pots and Trays are used to store or display food goods such as sago (an edible starch extracted from the trunk of the sago palm tree), grub, betel nuts, lime etc…

NORMAL RETAIL IS $600.00 AND UP.

Women collect the clay from pits near their village and shape the pot’s base and walls and let the men decorate the pottery afterwards.

The clay festoon or scallop design around the border is highlighted with white lime obtained from cooked shells.

Aibom pottery was and still is a precious item of exchange. Sago and fish form the stable diet of the Aibom people and in order to secure sago which they do not gather or process themselves they rely on trade with the bush people living in the hill country behind the lakes and villages of the middle Sepik with whom they trade pottery in exchange for the precious sago.

 Aibom village is on the edge of the inland lake system in the middle Sepik called the Chambri Lakes. The area can only be reached by canoe that can travel the narrow water ways choked by logs and floating islands of grass. Its isolation and inaccessibility accounted for the lateness of European contact, in contrast to the middle Sepik villages

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