Pigment Container
29-50-572A
From: New Guinea | Timbunke
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-572A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Timbunke |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Palette (A) is a shallow oval wooden receptacle, carved and painted. Carving represents head of crocodile at one end, boar at the other; on the bottom of the palette are carved two cojoined human masks (?) formed of groups of incised concentric circles. The brushes (B-F) are twigs with one end frayed out. |
| Length | 35.8 cm |
| Width | 12 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 397 - Other Number |
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