Mask
84-2-116
From: New Guinea | Lower Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-116 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Lower Sepik River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Peel | Feather |
| Description | Oval, face in top half: domed forehead, crescent ears, small excavated eyes, free-standing, curved, pointed nose, outh a small "V". Bone (?) ornament through nose. Lower two-thirds covered with incised designs: interlocking angular spirals, small chevrons in pairs. Red, black, yellowish-white. Peel ring with cassowary feathers around edge. Peel tied through hole in projection at top. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
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