walking-stick
- Museum number
- Oc1981,18.33
- Description
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Walking stick made of wood, encircled by carved and pigmented human and animal figures.
- Dimensions
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Length: 86 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1981:
Wood walking stick loop handle, carved and painted on all sides with human and animal figures. Worn black pigment on length of stick. Details of upper figures in red, white and yellow pigment.
WOSERA SUBDISTRICT, MAPRIK DISTRICT, EAST SEPIK, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
All objects obtained by the vendor in the field in the 1970s. (See also the vendor's MA thesis "local perceptions of the political system: the impact of change among the Wosera of the East Sepik", 1977, in the library, and his paper in Eth Doc. 954)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1981: Collected by the vendor in the field during the 1970s.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1981,18.33
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1981,N18.34 (pre-registration EO3 entry form and record no.)