Malanggan figures.
19th c New Ireland Oceanic (Melanesian) Sculpture

NEW IRELAND Anonymous (active )
c. 1870-1900
19th c
Wood
Carved; Painted
Oceanic (Melanesian)
New Ireland. Papua New Guinea.
Berlin (Dahlem). Ethnologisches Museum.
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Malanggan (or Malangan) objects from New Ireland were studied and collected by German scientists over a period of years starting with the voyage of the S.M.S. Gazelle in the 1870s under the anthropologist Captain-Lieutenant H. Strauch.