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
- Object Number:
- A87199
- type:
- statues
- taxonomy:
-
- credit:
- Sotheby's
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