Ancestor figure
- Museum number:
- 11-37364
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110037364
- Accession number:
- Acc.1837
- Description:
- Ancestor figure.
- Donor:
- Lawrence E. Dawson
- Collection place:
- Maprik District, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
- Culture or time period:
- Abelam
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Ancestor figures (devotional objects)
- Function:
- 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Department:
- Oceania
- Loans:
- S1966-1967 #57: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Lucretia Nelson (January 12, 1967–February 20, 1967), S1967-1968 #31: University of California, Irvine (September 26, 1967–December 28, 1967), S1967-1968 #76: University of California, Davis (1968–unknown), and S1999-2000 #8a: SFO Museum (December 2, 1999–March 2001)