Mask
84-2-85
From: New Guinea
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-85 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Feather | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Convex brow, eyes pierced in inverted "commas", projecting nose. Mostly black, with garish pink and some white. (Pink on forehead, outlining "commas" around eyes, dots around "commas", "moustache", mouth, chin, in curved incisions two sides of chin, etc.). Narrow rim, with ten holes pierced in it for attachment of fiber ring with cassowary feathers. Peel knotted through hole at top. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
| Other Number | 363 - Other Number |
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