Wooden ancestor board
- Made:
- 1851-1920 in Papua New Guinea
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Wooden ancestor board, leaf shaped, decorated with carved design, incorporating stylized human face, and with white pigment, slightly damaged, from New Guinea, 1851-1920, said to come from Kwai Papuans, New Britain, possibly known as a Gopi board
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A175886
- Materials:
- wood, ? balsa
- type:
- ancestor boards
- credit:
- Glendining
