Mask with Human Hair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "MATAVULO" HELMET-MASK MADE OF AN INNER BASKETRY WORK OF A RATTAN LIKE CREEPER (WALAKI VINE) TO WHICH IS SEWN A REALISTIC FACE MADE OF COCONUT BAST WITH TUFTS OF HUMAN HAIR FOR A BEARD AND MUSTACHE. THE TOP IS COVERED WITH TIGHTLY CURLED BLACK HUMAN HAIR. THERE ARE TWO BURNT OUT EYE HOLES AND A TUBULAR NOSE. THE FACE HAS BLACK PIGMENT, AND A BROAD BAR OF BRIGHT YELLOW TURMERIC. USED DURING CLUB DANCES. PUBLICATION: "DOMODOMO," FIJIAN MUSEUM QUARTERLY, JUNE 1983:1; ALSO "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION," VOL. III, P. 384, CHARLES WILKES, 1845. ALSO ILLUS. AND DESCRIBED "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," VIOLA AND MARGOLIS, 1985, P. 123. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MASK OF BAST MATERIAL (COCONUT LEAF STIPULE), WITH HUMAN HAIR WIG. COARSE BAMBOO OPEN BASKETRY FRAME WITHIN. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM. 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Levuka, Ovalau Island, Lomaiviti Province, Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2914-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 29 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 27 cm