Day Dance Mask, "Oggeroggeruk"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jan 2010
label: Collection Date
content: 1972
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 pointed beak. A long tube, gradually tapering to a point, extends up and back from the head. Natural light beige colored barkcloth, with floral patterns painted in red and black paint along the shaft. Eyes painted with concentric circles. There is also a second oval-shaped piece, also made from barkcloth stitched onto a bamboo frame, with a bamboo pole through the middle. It is painted with red and black floral patterns. The bamboo pole attaches to the narrow (top) end of the shaft on the main headdress. A photo of assembled headdress is in the accession file. Donor writes, on tag on the object: "Day dance mask, Walmetki Village, collected 1972. ca. 94" with attachment." Exhibited, and listed in exhibit catalog: Gathercole, Peter, Adrienne Kaeppler, and Douglas Newton. "The Art of the Pacific Islands." National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979. p. 240 (no. 16.10) The authors state that the head is that of a hornbill.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Walmatki Village, 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: 2047955
label: USNM Number
content: E433032-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Main Headdress
content: ca. 184 cm
label: Maximum Width - Main Headdress
content: ca. 37 cm
label: Length - Main Headdress
content: 40 cm
label: Length - Attachment, Pole
content: ca. 60 cm
label: Width - Attachment
content: 44 cm