Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Apr 1994
label: Collection Date
content: 1970's
name: label: Collector
content: George C. McGhee
label: Donor Name
content: George C. McGhee
notes: label: Notes
content: HUGE OVERSIZE ELABORATE WOOD FRAME MASK WITH CREAM COLORED BARK CLOTH STRETCHED OVER THE ENTIRE PIECE AND SEWN ON TO THE FRAME; PROBABLY BIRD MOTIF IN THE FACEWITH BEAK DESIGN AND SNAKE PATTERNS; MASK HAS OPENING IN THE BACK TO FIT OVER A HUMAN HEAD; ELONGATED BEAK ENABLES WEARER TO SEE AND BREATHE; LARGE PIECE ATTACHED UNDER BEAK IN FRONT; ATTACHED TO BACK OF MASK AT HEAD IS A LARGE BUNDLE(L. 90 CM.; W. 35 CM.; D. 22 CM.) OF LEAVES WHICH WOULD HANG DOWN THE BACK OF THE PERSON WEARING IT AND MOVE WITH THE WEARER.DAMAGE: DISCOLORATION AND DETERIORATION OF BARKCLOTH AT CROWN OF MASK FRONT AND BACK; APPROX. 23 CM. LONG X 8 CM. WIDE IN FRONT; APPROX. 20 WHITE SPOTS WHICH LOOK LIKE BIRD DROPPINGS; DISCOLORATION AND DETERIORATION ON THE SIDE OF THE ATTACHED BOTTOM PIECE (17 CM. IN LENGTH.)NOTE: THERE IS A BAINING CULTURE AND A 'BAININGS' TOWN ON GAZELLE PENINSULA. (CATHERINE RHODES, CATALOGUER.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bainings (not certain), Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Baining
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390923
label: USNM Number
content: E426878-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 139 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 90 cm
label: Depth - Without Mount
content: 62 cm
label: Depth - With Mount
content: 69 cm