Seat

84-2-96

From: New Guinea | Lower Sepik River | Keram River | Kambot

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-96
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Lower Sepik River | Keram River | Kambot
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Plant Fiber | Cowrie
Description

Seat, on two human figures (facing out, forearms and elbows on ground, hands supporting heads). Black, with bright orange, white, yellow (face paint, and orange and yellow circles on shoulders and arms). Cowrie shell eyes, fiber around necks, wrists, and in ears. Stick (peel?) in one nose.

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984
Other Number 642X - Other Number

Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.