Mask
84-2-52
From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-52 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Middle Sepik River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Cowrie | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Narrow oval mask, with face entirely in lower half. Eyes inlaid with cowrie shells (one missing). Painted facial decoration: circular spots on cheeks, repeated crescents above and below mouth. Red, white, black pigment. Incised decoration in top half:repeated pairs of arcs, in four vertical rows. Unpigmented. Lozenge-shaped projection at top, pierced, with fiber tied through. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
| Other Number | 313 - Other Number |
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