Painted Wood Carving
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Mar 1998
label: Collection Date
content: 1969 to 1974
name: label: Collector
content: Mary V. Trent
label: Donor Name
content: Mary V. Trent
notes: label: Notes
content: OVAL SHAPED PAINTED CARVING OF A FACE MADE FROM SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD. FACE HAS CARVED EYES, NOSE AND MOUTH AND IS PAINTED W/ YELLOW, RED, BLACK AND WHITE PIGMENT. ABOVE HEAD IS HEADDRESS W/ PAINTED WHITE LINES RADIATING FROM FACE AND TRIANGLE PAINTED IN BANDS OF RED, YELLOW AND BLACK. SMALL HOLE DRILLED THROUGH TOP. HEADDRESS EXTENDS BELOW FACE AND IS DECORATED W/ WHITE AND BLACK PAINTED TRIANGLES. SEVERAL AREAS PAINT IS WORN AWAY. BACK OF CARVING IS ROUGH AND PLAIN. ADRIENNE KAEPPLER (CURATOR OF OCEANIC ETHNOLOGY) COMMENTS "A SMALL CARVING FROM ABELAM, NEW GUINEA. BOUGHT IN LAE, NEW GUINEA. THIS CARVING IS FROM A MEN'S HOUSE - SIMILAR (BUT DIFFERENT) TO OTHER CARVINGS IN OUR COLLECTION."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sepik River (middle), New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Abelam
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416128
label: USNM Number
content: E428779-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carving
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 29 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 8.4 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 6.5 cm