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10.03.1954
Mwai | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Mwai
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May mask
This mask was part of a whole mask costume. It was tied to a frame decked out with leaves, completely hiding the person wearing the mask. The mask embodied the presence of the non-human realm at celebratory dances. The individual wearing the mask, in addition to the visual impression, created a piercing sound through a bamboo voice modifier concealed beneath the costume to reproduce the spirit's voice.
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- Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Iatmul
- Object type
- Maske
- Dimensions
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Width: 115.0 mm
Height: 450.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Colour pigments, Wood
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- II/2038
Provenance and sources
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Papua New Guinea (location/origin)Sepik (location/origin)Oceania (location/origin)Melanesia (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania
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- CC0 1.0 DEED
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