Mask

84-2-21

From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-21
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Pigment
Description

Oval mask, wuth domed forehead, round projecting eyes, large nose, round projecting mouth. Heavy curved ridges from outsides of eyes to temples. Holes through eyes and mouth to back of mask; nose pierced. Red, black and white pigments, obscured by a patchy "skin" of heavy white paint (?).

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984
Other Number 76 - Other Number

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