Accession No
MN0241.72
Description
Carved wooden head, oval-shaped, with jagged edges and minimal facial features apart from a long, tapering nose, eyebrow ridges and ?cowrie shell eyes. The whole is covered with curvilinear carved patterns, which are coloured red and ?black.
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Sepik River
Period
20th century
Source
Poignant, Roslyn [bequeather]; Poignant, Axel [bequeather]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
MN0241.72
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood; ?Shell; ?Cowrie Shell; Pigment
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Carved wooden head, oval-shaped, with jagged edges and minimal facial features apart from a long, tapering nose, eyebrow ridges and ?cowrie shell eyes. The whole is covered with curvilinear carved patterns, which are coloured red and ?black.
Event Date 7/4/2022
Author: Flo Sutton
Context (Acquisition Details)
Poignant donation description notes: 'Carved wooden head with long nose, Sepik River Papua New Guinea
Purchased, while canoeing down Sepik in 1969'.
Event Date 7/4/2022
Author: Flo Sutton
FM:296203
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