Wooden carving of a squatting figure with its knees drawn up to its body, resting its elbows on its knees and its chin on the ends of its arms. The figure is carved on a base which has an uneven line of geometric triangles running around it, and circular carved eyes on its face. Its mouth has a row of triangular teeth carved into it. The brow of the figure is pronounced on its smooth rounded head. A basket or large bowl is caved on top of its head with a pattern of triangles and curves around the rim. A similar pattern of geometric triangles carved along the figure's limbs on either side of the body, each side meeting along the figure's spine with a bull's-eye design at the top and bottom of its back. The carved lines are filled in with white lime.

• Narrative

  From the collection of Sister Twyford or Miss J. Pearce (Australia), who had served as missionaries in the Trobriand Islands in the 1920s and Dobu Island in the 1930s.

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• Type of Item figure
• Culture Trobriand
• Material teak wood, lime
• Measurements height 19.6 cm, width 6.0 cm, depth 5.8 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Ingeborg Marshall
• Received from Ingeborg Marshall

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• Made in Kiriwina Islands

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• Creation Date before 1940
• Collection Date between 1920 and 1940
• Ownership Date before November 18, 2014
• Acquisition Date on November 18, 2014

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• Item Classes carvings & sculpture
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3092/0033