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Object Number 2004.29.22925
Display Title Carved and painted wooden statuette
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Guinea - / German / Melanesia / Oceania / Statue of sculptured & / polychrome wood- / black, red, & beige. / Fetish of taboo house, / anthropomorphic, re- / presenting a convention- / alized man with / a long, peirced nose / which reaches to / his feet."
Department Photographic
Culture
  • New Guinea
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Dimensions Overall: 22.225 × 6.0325 cm (8 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.)

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