Mask
84-2-40
From: New Guinea | Murik Lakes
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-40 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Murik Lakes |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Massive, heavy oval mask, with long, hooked-under nose, jutting brows. Long, thin carved bird on forehead, beak pointing down. Small semi-circular projecting ears. Rim, decorated, with carved rounded squares, all around. Curvilinear incised designs across top of head, on bird and at chin. Whole mask a warm reddish brown. Left ear broken off and glued back. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
| Other Number | V1715 - Other Number |
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