Tablet
84-2-10
From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | 84-2-10 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | New Guinea | Middle Sepik River |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Cowrie | Pigment |
Description | Pointed at top, with protruding shelf-like base and sculptured face on front. Brow and nose of face deeply carved, angular, pattern carved on cheeks in low relief. Mouth a narrow slit. Cowrie shell eyes. Incised decoration (mostly spirals and arcs) on tablet. Black , with red and white pigment in incised decorations; red across forehead, bridge of nose, around eyes and on cheeks. [This is a tourist piece, with no reference to any traditional form*] |
Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
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