Neck Rest
29-50-298
From: New Guinea | German New Guinea | Sepik River | Timbunke
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-298 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | German New Guinea | Sepik River | Timbunke |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Rattan | Pigment |
| Iconography | Crocodile |
| Description | Carved wood with legs formed by bending piece of rattan over each end and keeping the rattan from spreading by means of a tie of split cane or ratten. At each end is carved the head of a different kind of crocodile -- the smaller, c. palustris (?); the larger, c. porosus (?) |
| Length | 56.4 cm |
| Width | 16 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 570 - Other Number |
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