Mask
- Museum number:
- 11-43910
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110043910
- Alternate number:
- 33 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4428
- Description:
- mask", anthropomorphic; full length flat figure with legs, knotless netting mask decorated w/ nassa shells; boars tusks & double-shell eyes; long curving nose suspended over face; round ears in blue & red; red & blue dyed on upper; two cowries at bottom; l. 30 cm. max. w. 11 cm.
- Donor:
- Joan Wescott
- Collection place:
- Papua New Guinea
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River Basin, Abelam attr.
- Culture or time period:
- Abelam
- Collector:
- Joan Wescott
- Materials:
- Bark (plant material) and Shell (animal material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- July 25, 1989
- Context of use:
- worn from the mouth mainly as dance ornament. supposedly carried in mouth when on way to fight. represents an ancestral spirit.
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- width 11 centimeters and length 30 centimeters
- Images:
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