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Figure

Female figure commemorating the dead. Such figures, carved from soft limestone, served as a memory of a deceased and as a passing abode of his or her soul. After completion of the death rituals, the figures were destroyed. The figurines were very popular with Western merchants and collectors and therefore were already being produced for sale by the New Irelanders at the turn of the 20th century. These examples have been fashioned in a less expressive, more basic way.
The object originates from the transfer of the University Collection as a permanent loan to the Municipal Collections in 1904.

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
Höhe: 510.0 mm, Breite: 135.0 mm, Tiefe: 105.0 mm
Material/Technique
Limestone
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0374 0756

Provenance and sources

when
1880 - 1900

when
1904

where
New Ireland (formerly New Mecklenburg) (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)

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