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probably a spirit being or ancestor figure, with a beak-like nose that reaches to the chest, the eyes are strikingly large, with a pointed headdress

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
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Cataloguing data

Object type
Figurine
Dimensions
L 25.5 cm
Material/Technique
wood (plant material) carved
Object genre
sculpture
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2134
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 61571a (Old inventory number)
2134 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

Assignment to a curated holding:
Ethnographic study collection
Production
when
before 1909
where
Sepik-Region
Papua-Neuguinea
Neuguinea
Melanesien
Ozeanien
Pazifik
Change of physical control:
Not clarified
when
before 1909
where
Papua-Neuguinea
Neuguinea
Melanesien
Ozeanien
Pazifik
who
Haug, Carl - Owners
Change of physical control:
Not clarified
when
1909
where
Stuttgart
Baden-Württemberg
Deutschland
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Owners
Change of physical control:
Exchange
when
15.12.1971
where
Stuttgart
Baden-Württemberg
Deutschland
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
Description
Came to Mainz "together with 636 other objects in exchange for 732 objects from Pakistan and Afghanistan" (Brandstetter, Hierholzer 2018).

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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