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Male figure with basketry beard, 19th century
Wood, bark cloth, basketry
20.3 x 5.1 x 5.1 cm (8.9 x 2.25 x 2 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.308

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected by CaptainHaug, Ship Captain on the Hamburg South Seas Expedition of 1908-1911. Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg (G7645 "Kap Haug"); Serge Brignoni Collection, Bern." (Catalog #46, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 90.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "This figure was probably used as a personal amulet or in a private household shrine. The pubic cover is made of bark cloth and serves as a visible token of male initiation. The basketry fringe may have served for the attachment of human hair. In 1918, A.B. Lewis collected in Murik village a figure so similar it could be by the same artist (Field Museum, Chicago, 140900 [3354]). It also has a basketry beard and a loincloth. See Welsch 1998, vol. 1, 265, fig. 4.26." (Catalog #46, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 90.)

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