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Object Number
2008.18.1
Display Title
Long house gable mask
Descriptions
Object Description
Huge woven basketry mask made for long house gable; sharp bamboo teeth; fringe of applied cassowary feathers; painted black-brown
Classification
- Mask
Department
Ethnographic
Date
Before 1965
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms
Krosmari River, probably
Materials
Vegetable fiber, Feather, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 138 x 96 x 47 cm (54 5/16 x 37 13/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Werlin Walzer, '67, and Robert S. Walzer
Provenance
Collector
Jay C. Leff
Intermediary
Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc.
(4/23/1974)
Donor
Ann Walzer
(4/23/1974 - 11/6/08)
Donor
Robert Walzer
(4/23/1974 - 11/6/2008)
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