Dance Costume Mask
29-50-653B
From: New Guinea | Mindimbit
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-653B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Mindimbit |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Shell | Pigment |
| Description | Cf. 29-50-649. Without bottom fringe. Looped wicker ornament around rim. Sawfish ornament, terminating in wicker wheel behind. Similar ornament with discs of corklike wood attached in position of ears. Narrow wooden man-parrot mask. Carved wooden head, inlaid pearl shell eyes, painted black, red and white in curvelinear designs. Exaggerated brow and nose. Has grotesquely extended upper lip with protruding tongue. Holes for attachment. |
| Height | 40 cm |
| Width | 6 cm |
| Depth | 7.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 592 - Other Number | 72-35-1 - Old Museum Number |
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