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Object Number
983-30-70/5524
Display Title
Ancestral board
Descriptions
Object Description
Ancestral board, "gope". Wooden panel with carving and white and red pigmentation. Central stylized face is surrounded by ornamentation suggesting other body parts?
Inventory Description
Carved wooden board, curved oval, anthropomorphic, pigmented design
Classification
- Carving
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Papuan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms
Papuan gulf: era area: gae village
Materials
Wood, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 116.9 x 41 x 11 cm (46 x 16 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
983-30-70/5524 / P37
Provenance
Donor
Evelyn A. J. Hall
(1983)
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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| |
| 983-30-70/5527 | Figure |
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|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 07-45-70/72721 | Ancestral image |
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| |
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| |
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| |
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