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
- type:
- mask, human remains and skull
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
