Mask
84-2-45
From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-45 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Middle Sepik River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Cowrie | Pigment |
| Description | Large oval mask with exceedingly long thin pointed nose. Cowrie shell eyes. Incised and painted decoration: circles with four-petalled motifs on cheeks, flanked by repeated arcs and crescents, the latter with serrated edges. Similar designs on forehead. Yellow, red, black, white pigments. Hole cut through at top. Cracked at chin. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
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