Suspension Hook

84-2-109

From: New Guinea

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-109
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Pigment
Description

Very flat, but shaped like a three-part suspension hook: head at top with two-pronged hook in center, second hook at bottom. Both sides decorated basically the same. Raised ridge down center, serving as nose of head at top, notched in two places in bottom segment. Eyes of top head in carved "commas", mouth an incised slit. carved triangles with notched arcs above them in bottom segment. Black and white painted decoration, including arcs, crescents, face in middle segment flanked by two stars (six-seven points).

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984

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