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Initiation Mask
Initiation Mask
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Initiation Mask

Maker New Guinean
Date20th century
Place of originAsia
ClassificationsClothing and accessories
Credit LineGift of Dr. Samuel Spring
Object numberS85-SPNG-G219
Collections
Tortoise Shell Mask
Tortoise Shell Mask
New Guinean
20th century
Tortoise Shell Mask
Tortoise Shell Mask
New Guinean
20th century
Tortoise Shell Mask
Tortoise Shell Mask
New Guinean
20th century
Tortoise Shell Mask
Tortoise Shell Mask
New Guinean
20th century
Tortoise Shell Mask
Tortoise Shell Mask
New Guinean
20th century
Large Dance Mask
Large Dance Mask
New Guinean, Blackwater River, Sepik
20th century
Hand Mask on Dagger
Hand Mask on Dagger
New Guinean
20th century
Turtle Mask
Turtle Mask
New Guinean
20th century
Plaited fiber scalloped oval attached to 2 bands or handles of plaited raffia. Extension decorated with numerous half cowries in a geometric design large square with V-shape extensions. Cut wood on either side of square.
Armband
New Guinean, Sepik River
20th century
Headband
Headband
New Guinean, Middle or Lower Sepik
20th century
Simple necklace of two boar tusks joined together with plaited fiber hanging from strand of gray seeds. Curved tusks project left and right and lie flat against surface.
Boar's Tusk Necklace
New Guinean
20th century
Bark Belt
Bark Belt
New Guinean
20th century

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