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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