Suspension Hook

84-2-107

From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-107
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Cowrie | Pigment
Description

Female figure standing on deep, broad hook, with birds on upper arms and at back of neck. On back, a crocodile, its head and forelegs on the hooks, its rear legs at figure's hands, its tail up center of figure's back. Cowrie shell eyes (one missing), protruding tongue. Zig-zag scarifications on torso. Crude incised designs on hook, both front and back (spirals, chevrons, cross-hatched lines). Black, chipping badly.

Shape of hook, birds, crocodile, typical of Kanganamon.

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984
Other Number 52 - Other Number

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