Female figure

Museum number:
11-39281
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2450
Description:
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)
Donor:
Daniel L. Adler
Collection place:
Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
Culture or time period:
New Guinea, Papua Island
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Figurines, Plaited weaving, and Women (female humans)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 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 2 of 3 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 3 of 3 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)

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