Mask
84-2-31
From: New Guinea | Lower Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-31 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Lower Sepik River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Peel | Pigment |
| Description | Wooden mask with projecting hemispherical brows, projecting nose, oval eyes cut through, mouth a small incised arc. "Horns" springing from outer corners of eyes, frog (?) on forehead. Curved scallops (15) around bottom of jaw. Hole at center top with fiber loop tied in, earlobes pierced, three small holes along edges behind each side of jaw. Black, white, red pigments, bright blue around eyes and across bridge of nose. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
| Other Number | V1873 - Other Number |
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