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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.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Biwat
Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
Length: 880.0 mm
Width: 120.0 mm
Depth: 160.0 mm
Material/Technique
Colour pigments, Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1846

Provenance and sources

  • Change of legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    August 1927
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
    Sepik (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Yuat (location/origin)
    who
    Speyer, Arthur - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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