Carved head: human
- Museum number:
- 11-408
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110000408
- Accession number:
- Acc.25
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Painted wooden carving of human head.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- New Ireland Province, Bismarck Archipelago, Islands Region
- Verbatim coll. place:
- New Ireland
- Culture or time period:
- Melanesian
- Collector:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Materials:
- Paint (coating) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- December 15, 1901
- Department:
- Oceania
- Loans:
- S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960) and S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown)
- Images:
-
- Legacy documentation:
-