Collection Online
Medium
wood, cane, bone, fibre, pigment
Measurements
160.8 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm
Place/s of Execution
Papuan Region, Papua New Guinea
Accession Number
ETH9-1973
Department
Pacific Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Hilda Richards, 1973
© the artists
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Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Double ancestor figure carved at the top below the band. The shaft is of bamboo with wooden head attached by fine plaited cane. The head is tipped with bone. The barbed head is a panel running around the arrow of finely incised double ancestor figures. Traces of lime or white pigment.