Giving Birth
Physical description
Wood carving of a man, woman, newborn child and bird. The woman crouches in a birthing position, a baby emerging from behind her grass skirt. She wears an elaborately painted mask, and holds her arms above her head where a long bone is grasped between her hands. A large white cockatoo bird sits on the bone near a cup that the woman holds in her left hand. A man stands behind her with hands on her wrists. He too is masked and wears a skirt of braided grass. Man and woman both have long twisted fibre for hair. All figures have eyes made of shell. The base of the sculpture is a rounded circle of wood.
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Date Made
2008
Date Acquired
2 Dec 2014
How Acquired
Donated
Credit Line
Estate of Neil Cole: Collection of Papua New Guinea carvingsMore...
Measurements
Overall: 71 cm x 21 cm x 23 cm
Object Number
3091/4