Day Dance Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jan 2010
label: Collection Date
content: 1973
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. George Corbin
label: Collector
content: Sarah Corbin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. George Corbin
notes: label: Notes
content: Headdress made from barkcloth wrapped around and stitched onto a bamboo frame. The head is shaped like a bird head (?), with large round eyes and open mouth with extended lower lip. Another bird is standing on this head, with wings outstretched. A long shaft, gradually tapering to a point, extends up and back from the head. Natural light beige colored barkcloth, with patterns painted in red and black paint along the shaft. Eyes painted with concentric circles. A detached cone-shaped piece, constructed in a similar way with barkcloth and a bamboo frame, is painted with red vertical stripes and yellow horizontal stripes. This cone would attach to the top end of the shaft. For photos of similar headdresses assembled and in use, see: Corbin, George. "Chachet Baining Art" in Expedition, Vol. 24 No. 2, Winter 1982, p. 5-16 (a copy is in the accession file). The donor writes, on a tag on the main part of the mask: "Day dance mask, ca. 1971-1972, Randolit or Malaseit Village." Tag on the "cone" says: "This cone attaches to the top of...day dance mask"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Rondoulit (not certain) / Malaseit (not certain), New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chachet Baining
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2044783
label: USNM Number
content: E433031-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Main Part
content: ca. 300 cm
label: Maximum Width - Main Part
content: ca. 65 cm
label: Maximum Length - Main Part
content: ca. 76 cm
label: Height - Cone
content: ca. 42 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Cone
content: 31 cm