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Object Number 2004.29.22305
Display Title Carved wooden statuette
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Guinea / Oceania / Melanesia / Statuette of sculptured & polychrome / wood - fetish of taboo-house with / high, oval forehead & very long / nose. Sepik R. Region"
Department Photographic
Culture
  • Sepik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Dimensions Overall: 12.065 × 4.445 cm (4 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

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