Figure
84-2-58
From: New Guinea | Washkuk Area
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-58 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Washkuk Area |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | At top, a face with jutting forehead, from which depends a straight free-standing nose. Round eyes cut through, incised arc for a mouth. Below, four pairs of projections (like cleats), rows of carved chevrons down sides, crocodile head at bottom. Black, yellow, white, red pigments: white yellow and red stripes on "cleats", carved chevrons yellow, red, white, lines of white dots around eyes and nose, down sides of face, in circles on forehead. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
| Other Number | 722X - Other Number |
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