DepartmentAsia

Funerary figure

NameFigure

Artist Artist not recorded

DateEarly 20th century

Place madeMalampa, Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania

MediumTree fern, spider web, clay, boar's tusks, natural pigments

Dimensions31 × 8 × 7 in. (78.7402 × 20.32 × 17.78 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.1970.34.16

Object numberFA.1970.34.16

Collections

Kal Muller Collection

DescriptionFunerary post figure with head atop. Face is painted in white, orange, red-orange and gray, and has boars tusks from corners of slightly protruding mouth. Brown nose is prominent and bulbous. Small white eyes protrude under prominent, jutting eyebrows. The cone shaped head is ringed in the aforementioned colors.