Bark For Chewing

29-50-529

From: New Guinea | Tambunum

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Native Name Massoi
Object Number 29-50-529
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Tambunum
Section Oceanian
Materials Bark | Plant Fiber | Pigment
Description

Kept in man's netting bag; small pieces bitten off and chewed. Incised and painted decoration representing a series of conventionalized human masks.

Length 35 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 521 - Other Number

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