Object class: Basketry (object genre) / Object type: ethnography / Collection place: Momase Region, Papua New Guinea - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basketry wrist bands, accession number 11-858, described as Basketry wrist-bands.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry wrist bands, accession number 11-860, described as Basketry wrist-bands.

Hearst Museum object titled Dagger, accession number 11-37848, described as Dagger, ritual digging tool; section of cassowary bone with joint-end broken off; incised curvilinear and zig-zag designs around a humanlike face; worn by village big-men (nimandu) in their plaited armbands, as an ornament; sometimes used in fighting.

Hearst Museum object titled Female figure, accession number 11-39281, described as Figure, female, seated on rounded base. Wood, painted black. Body stylized, hands on knees, with eye-like decoration on buttocks and shoulder cape. Fiber plaited wristlets and anklets. Large head with prominent features. Pupiled eyes (one missing) of pearl shell. Hat with two heads with pupiled, pearl eyes (one missing)

Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 11-37759, described as lizard figure of carved wood; decorative pattern of spearthrower, to which similar specimens are attached with plaited rattan

Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 11-37758, described as bird figure; carved wood, from piece of wood which also has curvilinear designs; usually found attached to spearthrowers with plaited rattan; whitish pigment on parts of surface

Hearst Museum object titled Head ornament, accession number 11-37852, described as head ornament; rattan basketry frame is attached to interior, triangular base by filigree zig-zag rattan coiled runners; base is section of bark fiber; painted black with earth pigment; 22.3 cm diameter

Hearst Museum object titled Head ornament, accession number 11-37851, described as head ornament; coiled basketry, woven flat with protruding nose in center; outer frame of rattan connected to body of piece by zig-zag filigree work; facial features worked into specimen, emphasized by red, yellow, white paint; 44 cm. length, 32 cm width