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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