Trumpet
29-50-682
From: New Guinea | Mindimbit
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-682 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Mindimbit |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Peel | Pigment |
| Iconography | Parrot? | Cockatoo? |
| Description | Wooden. Cf. 29-50-679 for form, 29-50-681 for carving. More realistic, painted, parrot's (cockatoo's?) head with ring of raised bisected ovals simulating cowries behind it. This motif is repeated near lower rim and occurs also in the flat painted decoration. |
| Length | 151.6 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 13 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 19 - Other Number |
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