Mask

Museum number:
11-40746
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2530
Description:
Mask; tapa with face painted on one half of mask in red, yellow, white and black ochers and other native pigments; mask slips over face; old tag says “funeral mask”
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
Collection place:
New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Islands Region
Verbatim coll. place:
Melanesia, New Britain, Nakanai District (N.C. New Britain)
Culture or time period:
Melanesian
Collector:
Bruce D. Lawes
Collection date:
before 1969
Materials:
Tapa (bark cloth)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1969
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S2009-2010 #11a: SFO Museum (dates unknown) and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 11-40746, described as Mask; tapa with face painted on one half of mask in red, yellow, white and black ochers and other native pigments; mask slips over face; old tag says “funeral mask”Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 11-40746, described as Mask; tapa with face painted on one half of mask in red, yellow, white and black ochers and other native pigments; mask slips over face; old tag says “funeral mask”

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