Figure / man, drumming

Description

Figure in dark ebony on a triangular base of a man squatting and playing a drum, with incised dentated designs: Oceania, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay Province, Trobriand Islands

Museum reference

A.1951.392

Collection

Oceania

Object name

Figure / man, drumming

Production information

Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

Materials

Ebony

Physical description

Ebony: incised dentated designs

References

Beran, H., Mutuaga: A Nineteenth Century New Guinea Master Carver, University of Wollongong Press, 1996, plate 99