Board mask
- Museum number:
- 11-37774
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110037774
- Accession number:
- Acc.1915
- Description:
- Mask, board type, of carved wood; face has long nose in low relief, eye sockets left without shell inlays, three curvilinear scrolls above brow; pig’s head emerges at base; painted designs in black, white, pink
- Donor:
- Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
- Collection place:
- Timbunke, Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
- Culture or time period:
- New Guinea, Papua Island
- Collector:
- Bruce D. Lawes
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Department:
- Oceania
- Images:
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