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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