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: T/PAPU/38

: British Empire & Commonwealth

: Figure

: Large food hook male figure. Large wood carving based on a food hook (to keep food away from vermin). Standing on wooden hook. Scarification on chest, upper arms and thighs. Typical curved head, chin and nose connected, large disc-like eyes inset with operculo shells. Wearing a fibre apron. Middle Sepik, ?Iatmul people

: Commonwealth Institute Collection

: Papua New Guinea, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

: Transferred from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, 2012