Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Sep 1981
label: Collection Date
content: 1977
name: label: Donor Name
content: Peter Calderon
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG OVAL SECTION OF WOOD. THE FRONT IS CARVED INHIGH RELIEF INTO A HUMAN FACE WITH A BIRD BEAK EXTENDING DOWNWARD FROM THE NOSE & AN ALLIGATOR ON EITHER SIDE OF THE LOWER HALF. PAINTED MOSTLY IN WHITE WITH BLACK ACCENTUATIONS. ALL AROUND THE EDGE ARE ATTACHED TUFTS OF RED-BROWN GRASS. THE DONOR CALLED THIS A "TAMBARAN MASK," FROM ABOUT 1962.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sepik River (middle), New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 348283
label: USNM Number
content: E422071-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 102 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22 cm