"Ancestor Statuette - Sepik Culture, East Sepik (province), Papua New Guinea - Circa 1900"
Ancestor StatuetteSepik culture, East Sepik (province), Papua New Guinea
Circa 1900
Wood and pigments
H. 31.2; L 5.5 cm
(old accident)
A stylised anthropo-zoomorphic figure in monoxyle wood, standing with his feet together on a circular base and his hands resting on his upper thighs. His torso is entirely incised with friezes of sawtooth motifs, his stylised face has a tapering bird's beak nose with protruding nostrils, finished in a volute on his torso, his eyebrows are finely drawn and he wears an incised conical headdress.
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