Head ornament with mask face

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Description

a flat half-circular disc of basketry, dyed with red and black pigment, painted with a zigzag-shaped diadem (dog-teeth-head ornament), nose and ears worked separately, cowrie snail eyes, framed by cassowary feathers, good condition

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Comparing literature

Wardwell, Alan, The Art of the Sepik River, Chicago 1971, p. 60, ill. 114

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