Pot
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca 1982, donor
Place madeMIDDLE SEPIK RIVER AREA, AMBOIN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, OCEANIA
Mediumceramic
Dimensions3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm)
ClassificationsCeremonial use
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Dr. Marshall Clinard Ph. D., A.1989.38.12
Object numberA.1989.38.12
DescriptionHand-built, pinched, fired, slip-painted earthenware. Brown with black firing marks, white paint on decorated areas. Wide human face on 2 sides with protruding eyes, nose, mouth. Animal-like face with sharp beak at each end of handle over top. Miniature version of storage pot for food or water, made in Amboin, the only pottery-making village on the mid-Sepik; these are traded with other villages.Original data enterer might have meant Aibom (?).
This is possibly Iatmul (FKH)
On View
Not on viewArtist unrecorded
c. 1989
Artist unrecorded
Jose Benito Ortega