Dance Bustle
29-50-666
From: New Guinea | Tambunum
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-666 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Tambunum |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Sticks | Plant Fiber | Basketry |
| Description | Ladder-like framework of sticks attached to a basketwork collar padded with fibre. To the framework are attached soft-wood carvings of a human head above two rows of 4 birds each. Numberous bits of the same pith-like wood, cone-shaped, spool-shaped, etc. -- all painted like the birds and head -- are also attached to the framework. |
| Length | 102 cm |
| Width | 32 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | unknown - Other Number |
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