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ANCESTOR STATUETTE
Sepik culture, East Sepik (province), Papua New Guinea
Around 1900
Wood and pigments
H.: 31.2; W.: 5.5 cm
(old accident)
Stylized anthropo-zoomorphic figure in monoxyl wood standing, feet merged on a circular base and hands resting on the upper thighs. Its bust is entirely incised with friezes of sawtooth patterns, its stylized face has a nose in the shape of a tapered bird's beak, with protruding nostrils, ending in a volute on its torso, its eyebrows are finely drawn and it wears an incised conical headdress.
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Ref.: 4953
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