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Lower Sepik

Figure of a Bat

Lower Sepik Peoples, Late 19th century

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Lower Sepik

Figure of a Bat

Lower Sepik Peoples, Late 19th century

Physical Qualities Wood, pigment, H. 10 in. (25.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.41
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
"The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art", January 7th-March 4th 1956, Baltimore Museum of Art

"The Art of the Sepik River," October 16-November 28, 1971, The Art Institute of Chicago, Allen Wardwell.
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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