Wooden Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Sep 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Field Museum Of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: On display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Objects of Wonder", 2017 - 2024. Exhibit label: Ceremonial mask, Melanesian, Papua New Guinea, 1884–1885; Wood, natural pigments, vegetable fiber. A male dancer would have worn this mask and concealed his body with leaves during ritual occasions to materialize an ancestral spirit being. Among the Murik Lake communities, the long beak nose embodied the spirit-beings' masculine nature and power.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Nov 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Dallman Harbor, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 114547
label: USNM Number
content: E362551-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask