Dance Costume Mask
29-50-659
From: New Guinea | Kararau
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-659 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Kararau |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Shell | Clay | Seed | Pigment |
| Description | Human-bird. Wooden. Cf. 29-50-656. The beak is without a subsidiary mask or head. An original encrustation of clay (?) holding small red seeds on forehead, beak, and sides of face has for the most part disappeared. Eyeballs represented by cowries. From a dancing-costume. |
| Height | 51.6 cm |
| Width | 16.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 561 - Other Number |
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