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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