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Title

Headdress (lizards and snake)

collected 1964

Artists

Unknown Artist

Details

Place where the work was made

Goroka District → Eastern Highlands Province → Papua New Guinea

Date

collected 1964

Media category

Sculpture

Materials used

sticks and tapa cloth, white and yellow feathers, ochre spots on brown

Dimensions

91.4 cm

Credit

Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978

Location

Not on display

Accession number

280.1978