Day Dance Mask, "Oggeroggeruk"
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 an animal head (?), with large round eyes, a wide extended lower lip, and two large round parallel "ears" pointing up. 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 along the shaft. Eyes painted with concentric circles. A cone-shaped piece, constructed in a similar way with barkcloth and a bamboo frame, painted with red and blue 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). Donor writes, on tag on the object: "Day dance mask, ca. 1971-1972, Randolit or Malaseit Village, ca. 120" long with cone." Tag on the "cone" says: "This cone goes on top of...day dance mask". 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. 16.11). The authors state that the head on this piece is "possibly in the form of a pig's pelvis, such bones being used as amulets and in garden magic"
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: 2051459
label: USNM Number
content: E433033-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Main Part
content: ca. 275 cm
label: Maximum Width - Main Part
content: 32 cm
label: Maximum Length - Main Part
content: ca. 55 cm
label: Height - Cone
content: ca. 53 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Cone
content: 26 cm