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Carved wooden statue
Object Number 2004.29.22307
Display Title Carved wooden statue
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Guinea / Oceania / Melanesia / Fetish statue of sculptured / & polychrome wood- / red, black & white- / Male anthropomorphic / divinity, large head, / hair, eyes incrusted / with mother-of-pearl / nostrils ornamented / with fangs of boar." Printed on photograph: "A Calavas, Paris"
Department Photographic
Date 1860-1908
Artist A. Calavas
Culture
  • New Guinea
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 15.875 × 6.6675 cm (6 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)

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