Gable Mask

84-2-62

From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-62
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Section Oceanian
Materials Bark | Peel | Bamboo
Description

Large face made of bark, lashed with peel onto frame of split and bent bamboo. Large protruding conical eyes. Nose a loop of woven peel, from which are suspended three flat wooden ornaments resembling pigs tusks. White, red, black pigments: circles on eyes, forehead (three), cheeks, chin; black areas with red and white dots around eyes, over eyes at sides, and at sides below nose.

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984

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