Figure
84-2-12
From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-12 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Middle Sepik River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Cowrie | Plant Fiber |
| Iconography | Bird |
| Description | Figure of a bird, hooked beak in air, standing on rounded base. Human legs, bird feet. Cowrie shell eyes. Twisted fiber with tassels tied into seven carved loops down spine. Black, with white, red, yellow designs. This bird is a totemic ancestor figure, a heron (saun). The colors are characteristic of pieces from Tambunum.* |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
| Other Number | 405 - Other Number |
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