A Manambu head

A Manambu head

Yambun Village, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

with an integral spike to the top of the head, with cowrie shell eyes and paint decoration, the back with a sticker inscribed 585.68 DN and a paper label inscribed DN 585.68,

55cm high.

Provenance

Douglas Newton, New York, field collected in 1967.

Exhibited

Crocodile and Cassowary, Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1971.

Published

Crocodile and Cassowary, Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1971, no. 122.

The personal name for this head is Meiyamogwei, sister of the meiurr Ambiyanggei of the Niyanggandau clan.