Only a short 800km off the northwest of Australia’s Kimberly coast lies the Indonesian island of Sumba. The tradition of megalithic burials is one that survives from the Neolithic and Bronze ages and it is one of the few places in the world where it continues.
Read MoreIt is not often that an Oceanic artwork trumps the big African art names at Sotheby’s in Paris, but it did in 2012 when €1.4 million was paid for a Biwat flute stopper from PNG. I suspect that many of the African bidders at that sale had never heard of the Biwat – as opposed to the Fang, or the Kuba, or the Dogon – and maybe didn’t know what a flute stopper actually was, so let me explain.
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