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84-2-104

From: New Guinea

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-104
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood
Description

Piece of fernwood trunk, cut in half lengthwise (back of piece concave). One face carved at top, a second in middle. Carved designs consisting of lozenges flanked by repeated chevrons below each face. Figure of hero, used in story-telling: correlate of 84-2-106.*

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984

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