board, ancestral; carved wood; facial features (eyes, nose, mouth) are enclosed in heart shaped area; lunate designs above eyes; other, curvilinear, patterns in low relief on various parts of the board; painted white in places over charred base. Has a broken piece, AT 5/3/12.
Donor:
Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
Collection place:
Karawari River, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Culture or time period:
New Guinea, Papua Island
Collector:
Bruce D. Lawes
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Charred and Masks (costume)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies