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Description: | A wooden Malanggan carving of a male figure, with an owl at its feet. Carved kapkap and long loin cloth. Hair made of coir, beard of seed pods, eyes of mollusc opercula. Face black; body decorated all over with intricate decoration in red, white and black pigments; much of white pigment detached.
Material: wood
Material: vegetable fibre
Material: seed pod
Material: sea snail opercula
Material: pigment | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.63663 | Go to resource |
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