Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Dec 1990
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum And Art Gallery
notes: label: Notes
content: Long and narrow with pointed ends at the top and bottim. Painted orange, white, and black, with local pigments. Cassowary feathers attached with wire. Information from Mr. Kaiku Ombone, of the Papuan National Museum and Art Gallery: object is a "flute mask" to be "used as a musical instrument. Also represents the spirit of the ancestor worshipped in Rao cosmologyand religion".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Middle Ramu, New Guinea / Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Rao
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378689
label: USNM Number
content: E424801-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 46 cm
label: Width
content: 9 cm