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Wooden dance mask
Object Number 47-73-70/2845
Display Title Wooden dance mask
Descriptions
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, incised, painted designs, nose and ears with fiber, shells attached with fiber at nose, holes bored through eyes, either side above ears, upper and lower edge of head, fiber loop through upper edge hole
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms Lower Sepik-Bien
Materials Wood , Pigment , Shell , Plant fiber , Hair?
Dimensions Overall (cordage loop extended): 31 × 14.7 × 7.7 cm (12 3/16 × 5 13/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 47-72-70/2717; L-84

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