Wooden ancestor board

Made:
1851-1920 in Papua New Guinea
Wooden ancestor board, leaf shaped

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Wooden ancestor board, leaf shaped
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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