White carved chalk figure
- Made:
- 1851-1910
White carved chalk figure, female, hands clasped in front, decorated with red pigment and mounted on cement block, ancestral and memorial, from Laur district, New Hebrides
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655999
- Materials:
- stone, chalk and mount, cement
- Measurements:
-
height 303 mm
on mount: height 315 mm
width 88 mm
thickness 77 mm
mount: length 106 mm
mount: width 74 mm
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
