Collection Online
Medium
wood
Measurements
305.0 × 82.0 × 102.5 cm
Place/s of Execution
Paringowi village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Accession Number
D19-1973
Department
Pacific Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Ruth McNicoll, 1973
© the artists
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Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Post carved in high relief on all sides with two main vertical lines of figures, with human headed snakes and fish in between. On the front a crocodile below a large standing male figure surrounded by a large sea eagle, its feet on its head. On the reverse, a smaller male figure.