Carved wooden ancestral mask
- Made:
- 1870-1920 in Papua New Guinea
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Carved wooden ancestral mask, painted, used by Iatmul tribe, Sepik River, New Guinea, 1870-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A162994
- Measurements:
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overall: 420 mm x 200 mm x 89 mm, .709 kg
- type:
- mask
- credit:
- Sothebys
