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84-2-58

From: New Guinea | Washkuk Area

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-58
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Washkuk Area
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Pigment
Description

At top, a face with jutting forehead, from which depends a straight free-standing nose. Round eyes cut through, incised arc for a mouth. Below, four pairs of projections (like cleats), rows of carved chevrons down sides, crocodile head at bottom. Black, yellow, white, red pigments: white yellow and red stripes on "cleats", carved chevrons yellow, red, white, lines of white dots around eyes and nose, down sides of face, in circles on forehead.

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984
Other Number 722X - Other Number

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