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Object Number
983-30-70/5523
Display Title
Ancestral board
Descriptions
Object Description
Board or figure
Inventory Description
Carving, curved, ovate, anthropomorphic face, red and white pigment
Classification
- Carving
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Papuan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms
Papuan gulf: era area: goiravi village
Materials
Wood, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 103 x 25 x 5.5 cm (40 9/16 x 9 13/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
983-30-70/5523 / P17
Provenance
Donor
Evelyn A. J. Hall
Donor
John A. Friede
(1983)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
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| |
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|
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| |
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|
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| |
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|
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| |
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Carving
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Papua New Guinea
| |
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Sculpture
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| |
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|
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