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