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
type:
statues
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)