Sculpture

Standing wooden figure completely covered with knotted string. Large flat feet, arms akimbo, hands on hips. String netting is dyed shades of brown forming wide bands of different colors. Conical barkcloth headdress mask, which is stretched over a frame and sewn directly to netting at neck line, takes place of carved head. The mask has large slits for the eyes and mouth; nose is a rolled tube of barkcloth reaching from nose tip to beyond to of mask with a tassel on the end. In three places rolls of barkcloth encircle the conical top of the mask; another roll forms whiskers - this last is covered with a strip of red cloth. Mask is daubed with red and white paint. Standing figure of Cikunga, protector of fertility and the hunt.