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Object Number
2004.29.22694
Display Title
Carved door post
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "New Mecklenbourg or New Ireland / New Guinea / Melanesia / Oceania / Upright post of door of a / case[?]- pierced & polychrome / Decorated with anthropo- / morphic divinities & birds- / eyes are made of / sea shells."
Department
Photographic
Culture
- New Guinea
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
/
<State>
/
New Mecklenburg
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / New Ireland Province
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / New Ireland Province
Dimensions
Overall: 31.7501 × 4.445 cm (12 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 2004.29.22696 | Carved wooden door post |
New Ireland Province
New Mecklenburg | ||
| 2004.29.22695 | Carved wood male figure |
New Mecklenburg
New Ireland Province | ||
| 2004.29.22697 | Carved wooden figure |
New Ireland Province
New Mecklenburg | ||
| 2004.29.22701 | Carved wooden drum |
New Ireland Province
New Mecklenburg | ||
| 2004.29.22698 | Carved wooden figure |
New Ireland Province
New Mecklenburg | ||
| 2004.29.22699 | Carved wooden figure |
New Ireland Province
New Mecklenburg | ||
| 2004.29.22700 | Mask made of skull and clay |
New Mecklenburg
New Ireland Province | ||
| 2004.29.22307 | Carved wooden statue |
New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.22310 | Carved wooden mask |
New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.22312 | Sculpted top of a house post |
New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.22916 | Carved and painted ceremonial mask |
Sepik
| ||
| 2004.29.22913 | Carved and painted anthropomorphic wooden statuette |
Sepik
|