Ceremonial ancestral male skull with features rebuilt with clay and fibre and painted forming mask

PART OF:
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, from Sepik River region, New Guinea, 1871-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A656000/1
Materials:
bone, clay, fibre, hair, seed, shell, teeth and wood
Measurements:
height 173 mm
width 216 mm
thickness 165 mm
type:
mask, human remains and skull
credit:
Wellcome Trust

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