Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Figure
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
Length: 880.0 mm
Width: 120.0 mm
Depth: 160.0 mm
Width: 120.0 mm
Depth: 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)
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