Head ornament with mask face ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Moyen Sepik · ID: 3033740

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

Littérature comparée

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