Anthropomaphic, male ancestral figure
- Made:
- 1870-1900
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Anthropomaphic, male ancestral figure, one of pair, wooden, painted red with decorated body and face, from Admiralty Islands, South Pacific Ocean, 1870-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655848
- Materials:
- wood and metal, wire
- Measurements:
-
height 512 mm
width 114 mm
approx: thickness 75 mm
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)