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Anteaterno date

Not on view
Stone sculpture of a coiled animal figure with a C-shaped silhouette, rough granular texture in sandy tan and golden-brown tones, with shallow carved eyes and an oval depression on top of the head
Title
Anteater
Place Made
Papua New Guinea, Western Highlands Province
Date Made
no date
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
Height: 9 1/2 in. (24.13 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Masco Corporation
Accession Number
M.2009.127.5
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Art of the Pacific
Provenance
Anonymous Collection, Papua New Guinea, c. 1950; Australian Collection; Wayne Heathcote (b. 1943), New York, NY, in 1986, sold to; Masco Corporation Collection, Livonia, MI, gift 2009 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Wardwell, Allen. Island Ancestors: Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection. [Seattle]: University of Washington Press, 1994.