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Pitt Rivers Museum

1989.28.17

Female figure, made from light wood completely coated in black pigment. The face is painted in red, yellow and white.

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1989.28.17

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Collection type
Object
Description
Female figure, made from light wood completely coated in black pigment. The face is painted in red, yellow and white.
Long description
Female figure, made from light wood completely coated in black pigment. The face is painted in red, yellow and white. The eyes are cowrie shells. The figure wears a fringe skirt of red and yellow fibre, and ear, neck, arm and leg ornaments of fibre, COIX LACHRYMA and other seeds, cowrie and other shells.
Geographical reference
Sepik
Person
Field collector Michael Carey
PRM source Michael Carey
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1972
Date collected
1970 - 1972
Acquisition information
Donated: 18/07/1989
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Cowrie Shell, Material Plant Fibre, Material Plant Seed, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions
Height 540 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1989.28.17
Associated publications
Published as a PRM postcard (with 1989.28.16), April 2002. [JC 5 7 2002]

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