Wooden figure

Museum number:
11-39243
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2342
Description:
Figure; wooden; carved; male with tall forehead; pearl shell eyes; human hair; cassowary feathers; knotless netting decoration of head; shell and fiber ornament on right ear
Donor:
Mrs. Marion Joubert
Collection place:
Sepik Area, Papua New Guinea
Culture or time period:
Mundugumor people
Taxon:
Casuarius
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1968-1969 #6: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (July 26, 1968–September 17, 1968) and S1977-1978 #50: Howe Homestead (City of Walnut Creek) (April 11, 1978–June 7, 1978)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Wooden figure, accession number 11-39243, described as Figure; wooden; carved; male with tall forehead; pearl shell eyes; human hair; cassowary feathers; knotless netting decoration of head; shell and fiber ornament on right earHearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Wooden figure, accession number 11-39243, described as Figure; wooden; carved; male with tall forehead; pearl shell eyes; human hair; cassowary feathers; knotless netting decoration of head; shell and fiber ornament on right earHearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Wooden figure, accession number 11-39243, described as Figure; wooden; carved; male with tall forehead; pearl shell eyes; human hair; cassowary feathers; knotless netting decoration of head; shell and fiber ornament on right earHearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Wooden figure, accession number 11-39243, described as Figure; wooden; carved; male with tall forehead; pearl shell eyes; human hair; cassowary feathers; knotless netting decoration of head; shell and fiber ornament on right ear

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