Sepik River Ancestral Figure: Ornate Female Ancestor Sculpture
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A female ancestral figure, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, the standing figure with cowrie shell eyes inset to a red and black painted oversize head surmounted by a bird, with draping fibre ornaments extending from the ears and nose, leading to an exposed torso, a woven grass fibre skirt to the waist and squatting legs, 117 cm high
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New Guinea tribal artefacts
- carved figures 609
- ornaments 97