dec 5, 1500 BC - Ambum Stone
Description:
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
Added to timeline:
APArt History GDQ
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