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Description: | Angular style carving in light pale wood of two figures back to back with small child figure in gap between them each side. bent knees. long necks. prominent navel 'v' cleft breasts, rounded elbows and shoulders. flat topped hair crests, very long foreheads, one with vertical ridges, the other with bands of double squares. oval slightly, cleft eyes set at bottom of deep recess. wide cleft mouths. children have ridged foreheads and very roughly delineated limbs. encrusted with black pigment, thick in places. right foot of one figure broken.
Material: wood
Material: pigment | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.62319 | Go to resource |
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