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Object Number 2004.29.22309
Display Title Wooden pillow
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Guinea / Oceania / Melanesia / Large pillow of sculptured and polychrome / wood: red, black, & white. It / represents a bird wuth a hooked / beak, buried in sand. / Region of Sepik R."
Department Photographic
Culture
  • Sepik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Dimensions Overall: 5.3975 × 18.415 cm (2 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.)

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