Dance Costume Ornament
29-50-667
From: New Guinea | Kaulagu
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-667 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Kaulagu |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Balsa Wood | Feather | Pigment |
| Description | Two-faced painted wooden human mask framed in openwork ornament terminating below, on each side, in a hornbill's head surmounted by a small human face compressed laterally like the bird's head. Along the top a row of clipped feathers. |
| Length | 75 cm |
| Width | 46 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 576 - Other Number |
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