Anthropomaphic, female ancestral figure
- Made:
- 1870-1900
Anthropomaphic, female ancestral figure, one of pair, wooden, painted red, with decorated body and face, from Admiralty Islands, South Pacific Ocean, Melanesian, 1870-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655847
- Materials:
- wood, metal, wire and beads, glass
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)