figure, carved wood female; single piece of light, pithy wood carved in the round; rounded head, partly crushed; arms placed at top of thighs, which are thickly fleshed; gender indicated by incised lines inside black pubic triangle; painted red,white, and black; 52 cm lenth
Donor:
Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
Collection place:
East Sepik Province, Momase Region, Papua New Guinea
Verbatim coll. place:
New Guinea, Maprik District, Wosera area
Culture or time period:
Abelam
Collector:
Bruce D. Lawes
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ancestor figures (devotional objects) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama