Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress
- Made:
- 1851-1910 in Papua New Guinea
Painted and carved wooden male ancestral figure with elaborate rectangular headdress and bead earrings, mounted on wooden base, from Papua New Guinea, 1851-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A100848
- Materials:
- wood, beads, fibre, thread and base, wood
- Measurements:
-
overall: 1240 mm x 204 mm x 148 mm, 5.26 kg
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Sothebys