Dance Costume Mask

29-50-660

From: New Guinea | Timbunke

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 29-50-660
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Timbunke
Section Oceanian
Materials Plant Fiber | Clay | Pigment
Description

Basketwork, painted. With representation of features of human face. Broad hooked nose carries long curved nose ornament (representing joined boar's tusks?) Triangular flap at base for (?) tongue.

Height 64 cm
Depth 28.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 591 - Other Number

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