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Object Number
2004.29.22302
Display Title
Carved wooden statuette
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "New Guinea / Oceania / Melanesia / Statuette of sculptured & / polychrome wood- / black & grey-green. / Is a taboo-house fetish / with long oval / head; aquiline / nose which is / pierced and has / an alligator in / high relief on / its chest. / Septik R. Region"
Department
Photographic
Culture
- Sepik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
New Guinea
Dimensions
Overall: 16.51 × 5.3975 cm (6 1/2 × 2 1/8 in.)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004.29.22305 | Carved wooden statuette |
New Guinea
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| 2004.29.22300 | Carved wooden statuette |
New Guinea
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| 2004.29.22303 | Carved wooden statuette |
New Guinea
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| 2004.29.22925 | Carved and painted wooden statuette |
New Guinea
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| 2004.29.22914 | Carved and painted anthropomorphic wooden statuette |
Sepik
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| 2004.29.22915 | Carved and painted anthropomorphic wooden statuette |
Sepik
| ||
| 2004.29.22913 | Carved and painted anthropomorphic wooden statuette |
Sepik
| ||
| 2004.29.22920 | Carved and painted wooden statuette of a woman |
Sepik
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| 2004.29.22304 | Carved wooden statuette |
New Guinea
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| 2004.29.22301 | Carved wooden statue |
New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.22918 | Carved and painted wooden statuette of a man wearing a mask |
Sepik
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| 2004.29.22922 | Large ceremonial mask of carved and painted wood |
New Guinea
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