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Standing figure: torso strongly accentuated, close-fitting arms, hands on chest, short legs, strikingly carved head, deep-set eyes, prominent nose (pierced septum), decorative head crest, remains of painting (black, white, red)

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Object type
Figurine
Dimensions
H 44 cm
Material/Technique
wood (plant material), Colour
carved, painted
Object genre
sculpture
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2113
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 69829 (Old inventory number)
2113 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    where
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    where
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    who
    Schoede, Hermann - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    Came to Mainz "together with 636 other objects in exchange for 732 objects from Pakistan and Afghanistan" (Brandstetter, Hierholzer 2018).

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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