Painted wooden ancestral figure surrounded by wooden framework
- Made:
- 1851-1910
Painted wooden ancestral figure surrounded by wooden framework, decorated with red blade and white paint, surmounted by bird, in poor condition, from New Ireland, 1851-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A656679
- Materials:
- wood, soft and shell, eyes
- Measurements:
-
height 1340 mm
width 180 mm
thickness 210 mm
- type:
- statues