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Male figure, C-14 dating: 1630–1820 (94.7% probability)
Wood, red ochre
29 x 5 x 6 cm (11 7/16 x 1 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.130

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected in Singarin village by Captain Haug, ship captain on the Hamburg South Seas Expedition, 1908-11. Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg (61682, "Sig Haug"); Serge Brignoni Collection, Bern, Switzerland." (Catalog #103, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 98.) EXHIBITIONS: 1970 - Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchatel, 1970. PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "This delicate male figure has a totemic creature's head on top. It is said to have been carved with rat's teeth." (Catalog #103, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 98.) 1970 - Bühler 1970: 71. 1913 - Reche, 1913, fig. 406 (drawing).

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