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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Oceanic; Melanesian
Title:Basket hook with human face
Date Made:first half of the 20th century
Type:Sculpture
Materials:Wood and pigments
Place Made:Oceania; Melanesia; Malay Archipelago; New Guinea; Sepik River Area; Abelam Mountains
Measurements:46.5 x 6.5 x 4.25 in.
Accession Number:  MH 1963.1.V.OI
Credit Line:Gift of Emil J. Arnold, through Mrs. J. O'Leary (Doris E. Anderson, Class of 1935)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Polychrome wooden ancestral hook with human face. Abelam Mts.-Sepik River Area, New Guinea.
Distinct face, abstract body (like flattened spear). Painted designs on front and back.

Tags:
indigenous people

Subjects:
Indigenous peoples

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