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Carved and painted anthropomorphic wooden statuette
Carved and painted anthropomorphic wooden statuette
Object Number 2004.29.22915
Display Title Carved and painted anthropomorphic wooden statuette
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Guinea - German / Region of Sepik River / Melanesia / Oceania / Statue of sculptured / wood painted black. / Fetish "porte-crane" / of a taboo house - / a convention alized / woman with thin / tattooed body and / hands on hips."
Department Photographic
Culture
  • Sepik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / Sepik
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 17.78 × 6.6675 cm (7 × 2 5/8 in.)

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