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Dance mask

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Dance mask
Dimensions
Depth: 68 cm
Weight: 3 kg
Height: 40 cm
Width: 52 cm
Depth: 220 cm
Material/Technique
Rattan (Rotang, Rotan), Plant fibre , Pigment, Rostrum (Saw Rays, Pristidae)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 48057

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1912
    where
    Melanesia
    Northeast New Guinea
    Middle Sepik
    Kararau
    Papua New Guinea
  • Collecting
    who
    Roesicke, Adolf - Collectors
    Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition)
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Sepik Expedition around 1912
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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