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Female skull reliquary, 19th–early 20th century
Lightly overmodeled human skull, clay, shell, basketry, encrusted sacrificial pigment
59.5 cm (23 7/16 in.)

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "This object was displayed in a shrine in the ceremonial house interior of one of the Torembi hamlets. It was accompanied by the two previous masks." (Catalog #245, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 121.)

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reliquary Female Art Jolika people Sawos complex village Torembi Oceania Province Sepik East Guinea New Sculpture pigment sacrificial encrusted basketry shell clay skull human overmodeled Lightly 0308200711540032 A383319 ADEC