Carved wooden canoe ornament, painted red black and white on one side with a pair of carved animals facing one another. [LKG 20/05/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Carved wooden canoe ornament, painted red black and white on one side with a pair of carved animals facing one another. [LKG 20/05/2010]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Massim D’Entrecasteaux Islands Goodenough Island
Person: Field collector Diamond Jenness; PRM source Committee for Anthropology, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1913
Date collected: By 1913
Acquisition information: Donated: 1913
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Carved
Dimensions: Depth: max 35 mm, Width: max 283 mm, Length: max 470 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1919.58.146

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