Dance Costume Ornament

29-50-667

From: New Guinea | Kaulagu

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 29-50-667
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Kaulagu
Section Oceanian
Materials Balsa Wood | Feather | Pigment
Description

Two-faced painted wooden human mask framed in openwork ornament terminating below, on each side, in a hornbill's head surmounted by a small human face compressed laterally like the bird's head. Along the top a row of clipped feathers.

Length 75 cm
Width 46 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 576 - Other Number

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