Carved wood ancestral figure
- Made:
- 1871-1920 in Papua New Guinea
Male, ancestral figure of carved wood. The figure has a beard of natural hair, inlaid cowrie shells for eyes and a detached piece of tusk that was originally in the nose. The figure is mounted on a wooden base and is from the Mundugumor tribe, Sepik River region, New Guinea, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A97202
- Materials:
- wood, hair, tusk, ivory, fibre and mount, wood
- type:
- ancestral figure
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
