Figure: standing human figure; carved wood stained black; three bone inserts (eyes, mouth); standing on self platform; openwork curvilinear flat carving held in front of figure; badly cracked (1980). Height 32 cm. According to Profesor Jerome Feldman (visiting art history professor summer 1980) this piece is a tourist item, a version of a Korowar figure from Geelvink Bay, New Guinea.
Donor:
Alexa Saunders and Bernard G. Saunders
Collection place:
Cenderawasih Bay, Papua Province, Indonesia
Culture or time period:
Korowai
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation) and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1962
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1965-1966 #16: California State University, East Bay/Clarence E. Smith (September 17, 1965–November 23, 1965)