Figure

58-17-9

From: Southwest Coast, New Guinea | New Guinea

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 58-17-9
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Asmat (uncertain)
Provenience Southwest Coast, New Guinea | New Guinea
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Pigment
Iconography Man
Description

Carved of soft, light wood. Stylized human figure in full relief with stylized bird up front in full relief except where joined to figure at neck, base, and below the middle. Trunk of figure is not shaped - would be a continuation of paddle, limbs are very stylized. Facial features on both figures, and body markings (feathers?) are accented with red paint. Once covered with white (lime) over rest of surface but most is off now.

Credit Line Bequest of Harry B. Wright, 1958

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