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Figure of a Bat

Lower Sepik Peoples, 1867-1899

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Lower Sepik

Figure of a Bat

Lower Sepik Peoples, 1867-1899

Physical Qualities Wood, pigment, H. 10 in. (25.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.41
Black pigment
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art". Baltimore Museum of Art.1956 pg 24. cat no. 41.
"The Art of the Sepik River," October 16-November 28, 1971, The Art Institute of Chicago, Allen Wardwell, , cat. 34, p. 27.

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2000–2000

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