White carved chalk figure
- Made:
- 1851-1920
White carved chalk figure, male, hands clasped in front, decorated with red pigment, mounted on wooden display block, ancestral and memorial, from New Ireland, 1851-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655998
- Materials:
- stone, chalk and mount, wood
- Measurements:
-
overall (on base): 357 mm x 110 mm x 104 mm, 1.86 kg
- type:
- figure
- credit:
- Hotel Drouot (Paris)