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Mask

Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Object type
masks (costume)
Dimensions
1075 x 790 x 650 mm
Material/Technique
Wood; Bamboo; rattan; Bark fibre; Fibre, vegetable; Pigment; Binder, organic
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 4442
Other number(s)
RJM 1899/01 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1897
    where
    Papua New Guinea
    historical: German New Guinea
    Oceania -> Melanesia -> Bismarck Archipelago -> New Ireland (New Mecklenburg) -> Northern New Ireland
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    1897-18-06
    where
    Ralum
    who
    Joest, Wilhelm - Buyers
    Source(s)
    Wilhelm Joest, Diary XXIII, 235

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