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Fully sculpted, carved neck support in the shape of an animal. The head is reminiscent of a crocodile but cannot be unequivocally interpreted as such. The crocodile is one of the mighty, mythical creator figures in the Sepik River region in New Guinea.

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cultural attribution
Biwat
Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
Länge: 880.0 mm, Breite: 120.0 mm, Tiefe: 160.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1846

Provenance and sources

when
August 1927

where
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Sepik (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Yuat (location/origin)
who
Speyer, Arthur - Collectors

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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