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84-2-74

From: New Guinea | Yuat River (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-74
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Yuat River (uncertain)
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Plant Fiber | Pigment
Description

Like 84-2-70. No projection at top. At back, instead of peel grips between wooden pieces, cylindrical wooden grips (lower one missing). Predominatly black, with pink and white. Decoration of elongated ovals, in low relief, surrounded by serrated borders. Seven ovals down each side, the borders alternating white and pink. Peel loop knotted through two holes at top. Four faces. Pairs of fiber tassels, red. natural and purple, originally eight on a side (four missing) and in noses of four faces (three missing).

Length 163 cm
Width 32 cm
Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984
Other Number 158 - Other Number | 302? - Other Number

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