Bench
29-50-318
From: New Guinea | Kararau
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-318 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Kararau |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Large, carved thin from single log of which the rounded form is preserved. Two-sided base with small human masks, etc. At each end the head of a crocodile (or of a monitor lizard?). Painted decoration of seat seems to represent the scutes of a crocodile. |
| Length | 163 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 8 - Other Number |
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