Carved wooden figure

Made:
1870-1920 in Papua New Guinea

Carved wooden figure, ancestral and protective with tusks through nose, shell eyes, and wearing stiff headdress of real hair and fibre, face decorated, left arm repaired, Melanasian, from Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, 1870-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A87199
Materials:
wood, shell, tusk, cane, fibre and hair, ? human
Measurements:
height 547 mm
max: width 165 mm
thickness 173 mm
base, max: diameter 117 mm
type:
statues and human remains
credit:
Sotheby's

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