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crocodile figure

Painted wooden crocodile figure decorated with carvings. The head and tail are richly carved and painted in the colours red, white and black. The torso is black and painted white along the legs. The underside is not coloured except for the head. There is an old paper sticker on the underside with the handwritten note "Nauer 11/3 11".

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
General: 11.5 × 15.5 × 88 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; Colour carved; painted
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D12929
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D12929

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1911-1912
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia: Zur Kultur der Admitalitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel, 1996; Nevermann, Hans: Admiralitäts-Inseln, Hamburg, 1934:262

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