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1960.3.5

Mask representing a human head, made from bark-cloth mounted on cane and painted white, red and black. Fringe of cassowary feather at top. [CW 15 6 98]

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1960.3.5

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Collection type
Object
Description
Mask representing a human head, made from bark-cloth mounted on cane and painted white, red and black. Fringe of cassowary feather at top. [CW 15 6 98]
Geographical reference
Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
Gulf Province
Person
Field collector G.H. Bardsley
PRM source Olive Bytheway
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1890
Date collected
1889 - 1890
Acquisition information
Donated: 1960
Materials and processes
Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Cane Plant, Material Cassowary Feather Bird, Material Pigment, Material Wood Plant, Process Painted, Process Beaten
Dimensions
Height 570 mm excl. fringe
Object numbers
Accession number: 1960.3.5
Research and responses

According to Margaret Reeson in 'Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835-1917: Wesleyan Methodist Church', page 309, Reverend Samuel B. Fellows was a Missionary in British New Guinea and by 1913 was a Minister in Western Australia. Reverend William Bromilow led the mission to British New Guinea from 1891. (page 209). [MJD (Verve) 24/08/2015]

Search terms: Mask, Barkcloth

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