Painting on palm spathe

Museum number:

11-37729

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Accession number:

Acc.1915

Description:

painting, on palm spathe; black background; groups of highly stylized faces with eyes assuming scroll design; bulbous nose; face group at one end surrounded by dentated line; yellow, white, red; dot motif

Donor:

Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux

Collection place:

Washkuk Hills, Upper Sepik River, New Guinea

Culture or time period:

New Guinea, Papua Island

Collector:

Bruce D. Lawes

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Paintings (visual works)

Function:

4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings

Accession date:

1964

Department:

Oceania

Dimensions:

Whole— length 170 centimeters

Comment:

Used to decorate ceiling of haus tambaran.