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
type:
statues