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Head, 19th–early 20th century
Clay, traces of pigment
17.8 x 9.5 x 10.2 cm (7 x 3 3/4 x 4 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.210

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "This is probably a cult object. See Kelm 1966-68, vol. 1, no. 366 for a somewhat similar example in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, collected on the Kaiserin-Augusta River Expedition in 1912-14. Kelm labels it a "roof finial," but May and Tuckson, 1982, fig. 97.6, say it was a "cult object." They add, "these [Porapora] cult objects, poison pots and clay heads appear to have links with both Yaul and Aibom pottery" (ibid., 251-52)." (Catalog #123, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 101.)

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