5 Dez 1500 Jahr v. Chr. - Ambum Stone

Beschreibung:

Date: 1,500 BCE

Artist: unkown

Medium: Greywacke

Location:
original: Papua New Guinea
current: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Function:
theories:
masked human; anteater embryo in a fetal position; anteaters thought of as significant because of their fat deposits; may have been a pestle; perhaps a ritual purpose; considered sacred

Form:
Stone Age work; artists used stone to carve stone. Composite human/animal figure: perhaps an anteater head and a human body

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