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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