Wooden mask, painted red, with an elongated face and pointed, curved nose and dragon-/lizard-like animal on the forehead. The nose is perforated twice on the right side, the small eyes and mouth are cut out. A row of six holes runs along the left edge. The holes in the rim were used to attach tufts of plant fibre. It is probably an ancestral mask that was used in ceremonies. The mask comes from the Lower Sepik region in the north-east of the island of New Guinea. The object comes from the collection of the pharmacist, writer and doctor Albert Daiber (1857 - 1928), who travelled to former German and British colonial territories from April to September 1900. Stops included Australia, the Bismarck Archipelago, the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, the Caroline and Mariana Islands and China (Hong Kong). He described his experiences in the travelogue "Eine Australien- und Südseefahrt" from 1902. Albert Daiber emigrated to Chile in 1909. Before that, he handed over the objects he had collected on his journey to Otto Leube in Ulm, who initially kept the collection and then donated it to the Museum of the City of Ulm as a deposit after Daiber's death in 1930.