Maprik District, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
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:
1963
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1967-1968 #31: University of California, Irvine (September 26, 1967–December 28, 1967), S1967-1968 #76: University of California, Davis (1968–unknown), S1971-1972 #131: Department of Art (UC Davis) (May 10, 1972–June 13, 1972), and S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994)