Figure
84-2-118
From: New Guinea | Lower Sepik River | Keram River | Kambot
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-118 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Lower Sepik River | Keram River | Kambot |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Plant Fiber | Pigment |
| Iconography | Woman |
| Description | Kneeling female figure, with large head, protruding breasts and stomach, hands on thighs. Protruding rectangular ears, mouth a grimace with eight carved round teeth. incised circles at navel, wrists, upper arms, backs of shoulders, buttocks, back of head. Spirals on sides of stomach, incised crescents above navel. Green fiber knotted through nose, ears, around neck, at right elbow. black, with red and white (face and teeth red, eyes white circles, red and white in incised decorations). Splashed with patchy white "skin" (see also 84-2-21). |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
| Other Number | 213 - Other Number |
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