Object Number | P1417 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Lampong |
Provenience | Nias |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Plant Fiber | Glass | Metal |
Description | Small figure of a man, face in hands and elbows on knees, seated on an open ring. A loop of twisted brown fiber (for hanging) runs through the figure to a long fat tassel of multiple twisted strands of yellowish fiber. At top of the tassel red fabric with four buttons, below which is a band of light colored lacy/embroidered cloth, from which hang long strands of small red and white beads, some broken. At the end of one strand an oval metal disc with a star or flower decoration. |
Length | 38.5 cm |
Width | 5.5 cm |
Thickness | 3.2 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of H. M. Hiller and Alfred C. Harrison Jr., 1901 |
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