Mask
58-17-38
From: New Guinea | Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 58-17-38 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Sepik River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Plant Fiber | Pigment |
| Description | Fairly heavy wood; back is concave; elliptical in shape. Eyes, nostrils and mouth openings; long nose or beak extends below bottom of mask. Painted in simple curvilinear designs in red, black and white. All of one eye, part of nostril and beak has had the paint scraped off. Fiber "collar" about 1.5 cm. wide attached through holes in sides of mask around lower third of it. |
| Length | 47.8 cm |
| Width | 22.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Harry B. Wright, 1958 |
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