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figure

Standing female figure on a plinth, with the figure and the plinth carved from a single piece of wood. The breast and buttocks are prominent, as are the large mouth and ears. The arms hang down at the sides of the body. The six fingers on each hand are noteworthy. The surface is painted red, and the body is decorated with paintings and carvings painted in black with a white background. The sole of the base is covered with a page from a Bremen newspaper from 1964.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
General: 69.5 × 17 × 18 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; vegetable colour; chalk; soot
carved; painted
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D10798
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D10798

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900-1907
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    1907
    who
    Nauer, Karl - Collectors
  • 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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