Yam Mask

84-2-69

From: New Guinea | Maprik Area

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-69
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Abelam
Provenience New Guinea | Maprik Area
Section Oceanian
Materials Plant Fiber | Peel | Pigment
Description

Basketry mask with large concentric circles for eyes, over-arched with peel-wrapped ridges which continue down center to nose, which is a small peel-wrapped loop. Round projecting ears, conical or cylindrical top. Black, red, yellow, white pigments, especially in concentric circles of eyes. Part of ridge above nose broken away, lower ring broken away across back, conical tip almost completely broken off.

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984
Other Number 605 - Other Number

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