Dance Costume

29-50-650

From: New Guinea | Mindimbit

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 29-50-650
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Mindimbit
Section Oceanian
Materials Palm Spathe | Wood | Hair | Pigment
Description

Cf. 29-50-649. The mask has a protruding tongue. Below the mask in front and to the middle of the cone behind are attached imitations, in painted palm spathe and splints of bamboo, of sawfish saws.

Height 75 cm
Outside Diameter 42 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 586 - Other Number

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