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bed leg

The bed leg is carved in the shape of a male figure. The figure is naked with exposed genitals and extended earlobes. The body, arms, legs and head are decorated with white incised patterns. The rest of the figure is coloured red.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
legs (furniture components)
Dimensions
General: 45.7 × 7.8 × 8.3 cm
Material/Technique
Wood carved; painted
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D12695a
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D12695a

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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