ANCESTOR STATUETTE - Sepik Culture, East Sepik (province), Papua New Guinea - Circa 1900

ANCESTOR STATUETTE

Sepik Culture, East Sepik (province), Papua New Guinea

Around 1900

Wood and pigments

H.: 31.2; L.: 5.5 cm

(old accident)

Stylized anthropo-zoomorphic figure in monoxyl wood standing, feet merged on a circular base and hands resting on the upper thighs. Its bust is entirely incised with friezes of sawtooth patterns, its stylized face has a nose in the shape of a tapered bird's beak, with protruding nostrils, finished in a volute on its torso, its eyebrows are finely drawn and it wears an incised conical headdress.

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