Mask
84-2-117
From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-117 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Middle Sepik River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Conus Shell | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Long, narrow, oval mask, with turtle on chin and some sort of creature above forehead. Five decorative protrusions down center of forehead. Mouth open with many serrated teeth. Conus shell eyes painted "commas". Fiber knotted through creature at top. Red, black and white. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
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