Ceremonial ancestral male skull with features rebuilt with clay and fibre and painted forming mask
1871-1920
Ceremonial ancestral male skull with features rebuilt with clay and fibre and painted forming mask
- Made:
- 1871-1920 in Papua New Guinea
Ceremonial ancestral male skull with features rebuilt with clay and fibre and painted forming mask, real hair embedded in skull, on wooden stand, from Sepik River region, New Guinea, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A656000
- Materials:
- bone, human, teeth, hair, clay, fibre, shell, cypraea, seed and mount, wood
- type:
- mask, human remains and skull
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
