Medium
earth pigments on clay and fibre, conch shell, palm leaf
Measurements
60.5 × 40.9 × 15.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Todd Barlin, 2009
© the artists
Gallery location
Not on display
Place/s of Execution
Malekula Island, Vanuatu
Accession Number
2009.43
Departments
Oceanic Sculpture / Pacific Art
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Physical description
The very powerful ancestor figure resembles to the vegetable fibre, clay, spider wed and pigment sculptures of South Malekula. Constructed from a frame over-modelled with vegetable fibre and pigments, the figure is set on a large conch shell and decorated with bold lines painted with black and white pigments.
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