Ceremonial ancestral male skull with features rebuilt with clay and fibre and painted forming mask
1871-1920
Ceremonial ancestral male skull with features rebuilt with clay and fibre and painted forming mask
- Made:
- 1871-1920 in Papua New Guinea
Ceremonial ancestral male skull with features rebuilt with clay and fibre and painted forming mask, real hair embedded in skull, on wooden stand, from Sepik River region, New Guinea, 1871-1920
Wooden stand for ceremonial ancestral male skull with features rebuilt with clay and fibre and painted forming mask
1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A656000
- Materials:
- bone, human, teeth, hair, clay, fibre, shell, cypraea, seed and mount, wood
- Measurements:
-
height 173 mm
width 216 mm
thickness 165 mm
mount: length 105 mm
mount: width 105 mm
- type:
- mask, human remains and skull
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
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