Lower Sepik River, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Culture or time period:
Papuan
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1915
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown), S1963-1964 #24: Oakland High School/Milo S. Popovich (October 11, 1963–November 15, 1963), S1967-1968 #31: University of California, Irvine (September 26, 1967–December 28, 1967), and S1967-1968 #76: University of California, Davis (1968–unknown)