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Description

Wooden carving of a squatting figure with its knees drawn up to its body, resting its elbows on its knees and its chin on the ends of its arms. The figure is carved on a rounded base, and has circular carved eyes above small "U" shaped marks on its face. The brow of the figure is pronounced on its smooth, narrow head. There is a line carved across the figure's face above the brow line, and a similar one across the figure's shoulders. In the centre of this line there is a small half-circle above a "Y" shaped marking. Each of the figure's limbs has a carved outline which ends in a "swirl" shape on either side of the figure's body.

Narrative

From the collection of Sister Twyford or Miss J. Pearce (Australia), who had served as missionaries in the Trobriand Islands in the 1920s and Dobu Island in the 1930s.

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