Mask
84-2-61
From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-61 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Middle Sepik River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Cowrie | Pigment |
| Description | Oval mask, with face in lower half. Long, free-standing nose, curved under to touch at bottom. Inlaid cowrie shell eyes (one missing). Carved and painted decoration, including: motifs of quartered circles (white, red, yellow), two at top, two at bottom, and areas outlined with notches/serrations. Very small hole at top. Black, yellow, red, white pigments. Typical Tambunum mask.* |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
| Other Number | 464 - Other Number |
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