Mask attachment
- Museum number:
- 11-42719
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110042719
- Accession number:
- Acc.3562
- Description:
- Mask attachment, bamboo and twine framework. 16.5 cm. Attaches to top of mask to form head shape. Usually decorated further with feathers, fiber.
- Donor:
- Caroline Mytinger
- Collection place:
- New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Islands Region
- Culture or time period:
- Melanesian
- Collector:
- Caroline Mytinger
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- July 22, 1980
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- length 16.5 centimeters
- Images:
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