Dance Costume Mask
29-50-656
From: New Guinea | Mindimbit
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-656 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Mindimbit |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Human Hair | Pigment |
| Description | Human-bird. Wooden. Disproportionately elongated. Painted. From end of nose, a long beak tipped with a representation of a bird's head forms a bow whose other end rests on lower extremity of mask. Mask fringed with human hair. From dancing costume. |
| Height | 76.5 cm |
| Width | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 540 - Other Number |
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