Figure
- Museum number:
- 11-37749
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110037749
- Accession number:
- Acc.1915
- Description:
- bird figure, of carved wood; large parrot-like bird with raised hump near rear end; blackened surface; usually found attached with rattan to spear thrower
- Donor:
- Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
- Collection place:
- Malu village, Upper Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
- Culture or time period:
- Manambu
- Collector:
- Bruce D. Lawes
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Department:
- Oceania
- Images:
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