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Overmodeled child's skull, 19th–early 20th century
Human skull, clay, wax, crusted pigment, pearl shell, fiber tassel, string
15.2 cm (6 in.); 15.2 x 20.3 x 12.7 cm (6.5 x 8 x 5.5 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.307

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "See previous entry. Rather than New Guinea, this skull brings to mind the greenstone Egyptian heads in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. It was one of the first pieces to enter our collection. The only other skull I have seen with a similar surface is in the Acher Eskenazy Collection, Paris, and is published in Le Fur 1999: 153. Wardwell, 1971, fig. 174, illustrates another overmodeled child's skull." (Catalog #164, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 108.) 1981 - Kirk, 1981: 28.

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