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Lower Sepik River Ancestor Mask - #7370 $95.00

Most masks in New Guinea are not worn over the face but are hung in or outside ceremonial men’s houses or attached to large dance costumes. They can depict sprits or family, clan, & tribal ancestors-often with totemic animals on the forehead or chin. This mask is painted with clay and vegetable-based colors then finished with breadfruit sap to make the colors bright and trimmed with rattan. It is 13.75 inches tall. Ancestor Mask, Angoram Village, lower Sepik River, Papua New Guinea.

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