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Übersee-Museum Bremen Ozeanien Ethnographische Sammlungen [D13414]
D13414 Figur | moai paapaa (Übersee-Museum Bremen CC BY-SA)
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Female wooden figure with skeletonized chest, a bit emaciated, representing a female spirit being. The oversized, narrow head is kept straight and features a narrow curved nose. The lips are open, revealing two rows of teeth. The eyebrows protrude, and the eyes consist of inlaid bone rings with obsidian discs in them for the pupils. The sharp chin is adorned with a hooked goatee. The earlobes hang down rectangularly and are incised. There are cracks from the wood on the head, but no indentations.
Long, straight arms hang down from the shoulders at the sides. The hands with incised fingers are not fully sculpted. The ribcage with the ribs does not end in the middle with the sword process protruding far above the abdomen as in the other figures, but has a horizontal termination. Nipples and navel are not marked.A vulva is incised. The legs are short and stocky in proportion to the body and arms. Slightly bent at the knee, the legs end in small feet that have not been fully sculpted. On the back, no spine with individual vertebrae emerges, as in the other figures.

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