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This watercolour is based on a mask from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea which would have been made for an elaborate post-mortuary ritual.
This example is missing its coiffure, which originally would have been made of fibre or sea sponge. Over the head are carved two interlocking branches of cockerel feathers.
(Island Ancestors: Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection, A. Wardell, University of Washington Press.)
(Island Ancestors: Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection, A. Wardell, University of Washington Press.)
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