Head ornament with mask face · Papua New Guinea - Middle Sepik · ID: 3033740
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Provenance
Thomas Schulze, Berlin, GermanySize
H: 28 cm
H: 11.0 inch
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
The object Head ornament with mask face with the object ID 3033740 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 77.
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Comparing literature
Wardwell, Alan, The Art of the Sepik River, Chicago 1971, p. 60, ill. 114