Mask
84-2-114
From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | 84-2-114 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | New Guinea | Middle Sepik River |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Plant Fiber | Peel |
Description | Oval, with protruding brow, nose, ears. Low-relief decoration: chevrons in middle of forehead, rows of crescents along sides, "commas" with spirals on cheeks, small flat discs around edges of lower face, flat round disc center of chin. Black, red, white, yellow. Reddish twisted fiber with tassels through ears and nose. Peel knotted through hole at top. |
Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
Other Number | 456 - Other Number |
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