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mask

human history
  • Other Name

    Eharo (Papua New Guinean)

  • Description

    ceremonial mask made of bark cloth on a framework of cane painted with lime charcoal and red ochre surrounded by skirts of dyed sago leaf. Used in dances in connection with the 'Hevehe' ceremony {visit of the spirits of the sea}. This mask is a 'Eharo' mask used to represent totemic objects and unlike the 'Hevehe' mask, is not as sacred and is not ceremonially destroyed.

  • Place
    Orokolo/New Guinea (PRE 1975)
  • Accession Number
    1937.108
  • Other Id

    23189.2 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

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  • mask; 23189.2

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