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84-2-103

From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-103
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Cowrie | Peel
Description

Narrow oval, with prominent hooked-under nose, large cowrie shell eyes. Narrow ears at sides, hole at top with peel knotted through. Carved and painted decoration: circles flanked by arcs, crescents, wavy lines around nose and mouth. Black, with red and white.

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984

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