Figural sculpture ·  Papua New Guinea - Sepik · ID: 3037834

Description

wood, reddish brown patina, traces of black paint, encrusted in some areas, unusual features: carved on a circular base and wearing a flat superstructure with side projections, aside of this reminding of the small ancestor figures “kandimboang”, incised curvilinear ornaments on the headdress, handwritten collection number on the underside of the base “9-126”, slightly dam., crack (base), abrasion of paint