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bowl

human history
  • Description

    Carved bowl with whole head - neck, full facial features including ears at distal end front and relief motif patterning over base. Made from a single piece of wood with bowl space hollowed out. Food bowl which would have been made for special feasts. Here again the classic anthropomorphic figure is repeated representing the ancestors. Bowl is 370x65x110mm,

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    2016.85.10
  • Accession Date
    11 Nov 2016
  • Other Id

    56771.10 (ethnology)

  • Department
bowl; Papua New Guinea; 2016.85.10

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