New Guinean Carved Wood Ancestor Figure

Item Details

Artist unknown, New Guinean
Untitled
Wooden sculpture with string
Unsigned

A carved wood Ancestor Figure from Papua New Guinea. The nude male figure is carved stylistically with painted black and white patterned face and a woven yarn head adornment. The piece is unmarked.

Condition

- negligible scuffs to edges of piece.

Dimensions

- measures the sculpture.

Item #

18BOS158-120