DepartmentOceania

Pot

NamePot

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca 1982, donor

Place madeMIDDLE SEPIK RIVER AREA, AMBOIN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, OCEANIA

Mediumceramic

Dimensions3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Dr. Marshall Clinard Ph. D., A.1989.38.12

Object numberA.1989.38.12

DescriptionHand-built, pinched, fired, slip-painted earthenware. Brown with black firing marks, white paint on decorated areas. Wide human face on 2 sides with protruding eyes, nose, mouth. Animal-like face with sharp beak at each end of handle over top. Miniature version of storage pot for food or water, made in Amboin, the only pottery-making village on the mid-Sepik; these are traded with other villages.
Original data enterer might have meant Aibom (?).
This is possibly Iatmul (FKH)