Mask
84-2-103
From: New Guinea | Middle Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | 84-2-103 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | New Guinea | Middle Sepik River |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Cowrie | Peel |
Description | Narrow oval, with prominent hooked-under nose, large cowrie shell eyes. Narrow ears at sides, hole at top with peel knotted through. Carved and painted decoration: circles flanked by arcs, crescents, wavy lines around nose and mouth. Black, with red and white. |
Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
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