Carved wooden figure

Made:
1871-1900
Carved wooden figure, anthropomarphic and female (?)

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Carved wooden figure, anthropomarphic and female (?)
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Carved wooden figure, anthropomarphic and female (?), painted black with elongated ear lobes and loin cloth, shell eyes and light coloured fibre hair, from Simbo Island, Solomon Islands, 1871-1900

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A655851
Materials:
wood, fibre and cloth
type:
statues
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)