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Asmat artist(s) · mid-20th century
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Modern · № 052
White Ogre Tihu Katsina Figure
Americas and Oceania · ca. 1900
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White Ogre Tihu Katsina Figure
- Maker
- Americas and Oceania
- Date
- ca. 1900
- Place
- Americas and Oceania
- Material
- Cottonwood, pigment, cotton cloth, tanned leather, and metal
- Dimensions
- 47 × 15.2 × 17.8 cm
- Current collection
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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This figure combines carved cottonwood with pigment, cotton cloth, tanned leather, and metal. The separate additions are important to its construction and can be identified from different sides.
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- Maker
- Americas and Oceania
- Date
- ca. 1900
- Place
- Americas and Oceania
- Material
- Cottonwood, pigment, cotton cloth, tanned leather, and metal
- Dimensions
- 47 × 15.2 × 17.8 cm
- Current collection
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Source
- The Met ↗
- Rights
- CC0 1.0
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