Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) Female donor: Professor Dame Marilyn Stathern, William Wyseman Professor of Anthropology, 1993- 2008, Cambridge University, who conducted fieldwork in the PNG Highlands and in Port Moresby from the 1960s onward. Displayed in the donor’s rooms at Girton College.
Event Date 21/4/2009
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Untitled print on paper, black on white, dated c.1975. Image shows humanoid figure with fish tail instead of legs, the arms terminating in heads, rather then hands. Bird figure at figure’s left side. Signed at base, “Barbabas India”. Written on the back on right in pencil, “Barnabas from Simbai; woman + child (bird); 2 pinapples/snakes (woman is woman/fish)”. Written in pencil on boottom right, “From Beier when twins born May 1975’Condition: Good, but foxing and creases and signs of wear around edges, with mark at left side.
Event Date 21/4/2009
Author: maa