Dance-mask, conical wicker covered with painted cloth; with large nose-bar and hair represented by a mass of burrs, red and black mixed with down.

Collection type: Object
Description: Dance-mask, conical wicker covered with painted cloth; with large nose-bar and hair represented by a mass of burrs, red and black mixed with down.
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
Person: Field collector Walter Edward Guinness; Field collector HMS Rosaura; PRM source Walter Edward Guinness
Date / Period: Date made: Before 02/1936
Date collected: November 1935 - February 1936
Acquisition information: Donated: 1936
Materials and processes: Material Pigment, Material Textile, Material Plant Seed, Material Bird Feather, Material Wood Plant, Material Bark Fibre Plant, Process Wicker Woven, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Height: max 540 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1936.34.120
Research and responses: For an account of the voyage during which this was collected, see Walkabout: A Journey in Lands between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, by Lord Moyne (with an Introduction by Dr A. C. Haddon F.R.S. and an Appendix by Dr A. J. E. Cave and Illustrated from Photographs by Lady Broughton), (London and Toronto: William Heinemann, 1936). [JC 12 6 2002]

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