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August 1927
Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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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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- Cultural attribution
- Biwat
- Object type
- figures (representations)
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Length: 880.0 mm
Width: 120.0 mm
Depth: 160.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Colour pigments, Wood
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- II/1846
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Papua New Guinea (location/origin)Sepik (location/origin)Oceania (location/origin)Melanesia (location/origin)Yuat (location/origin)
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Oceania
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