Pigment Container

29-50-572A

From: New Guinea | Timbunke

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 29-50-572A
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Timbunke
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Pigment
Description

Palette (A) is a shallow oval wooden receptacle, carved and painted. Carving represents head of crocodile at one end, boar at the other; on the bottom of the palette are carved two cojoined human masks (?) formed of groups of incised concentric circles. The brushes (B-F) are twigs with one end frayed out.

Length 35.8 cm
Width 12 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 397 - Other Number

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