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Male effigy commemorating the dead. Such figures were intended as a short-term abode for the soul of a deceased person. After the funeral is over, having already lasted several years, the effigies were destroyed.

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
Höhe: 370.0 mm, Breite: 110.0 mm, Tiefe: 90.0 mm
Material/Technique
Limestone
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0373 0757

Provenance and sources

when
1880 - 1900

when
1904
who
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg - Depositors

where
New Ireland (formerly New Mecklenburg) (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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