Figure

84-2-81

From: New Guinea | Lower Sepik River | Keram River | Kambot

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-81
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Lower Sepik River | Keram River | Kambot
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Cowrie | Plant Fiber
Iconography Woman
Description

Female figure, hands on thighs, on base. Mouth open, cowrie shell eyes. Row of projections down forehead. Flat round discs carved at ankles, knees, wrists, elbows and shoulders. Punctate rings around upper arms. Eight vertebrae carved down back. Fiber tied around ankles, wrists, neck. Black, with red and white. Deep crack in base, at front, between feet. Another deep crack up right front side of figure: through thigh, up torso, and into shoulders.

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984

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