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Male ritual figure ·  Papua New Guinea, South Abelam / Wosera · ID: 3040694

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Provenance
Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, Germany
German Private Collection, Hesse

Description

wood, red, white and black pigment, the body dyed with red pigment, ornaments partly carved (bracelets and leg rings, necklace), partly painted, “net-bag-pattern” on belly and arms, face painting only preserved in residues, slightly dam., missing parts (superstructure broken off), cracks, abrasion of paint, base;
presumably depicting an important ancestor. The figure might have been crowned by a hornbill, resp. hornbill head as clan emblem or emblem of headhunting.


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