- 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.
- 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]
1989.28.17
Female figure, made from light wood completely coated in black pigment. The face is painted in red, yellow and white.
On display
1989.28.17
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