Description:

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River Region, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A striking Papua New Guinea ancestor mask, hand-carved from a single piece of hardwood, with an expressive visage and finely rendered low to high relief as well as painted details. The elongated ovoid mask displays a pair of deep-set slit eyes flanking a prominent curved nose with enlarged openwork contiguous nostrils. Below this is a slight smile and delineated nasolabial folds. The face is trimmed with a fretted band - perhaps delineating facial hair or scarring- and cup-shaped ears at upper ends of this band. Atop the head is an avian headdress with a high-relief visage surrounded by incised plumage. Representative of an ancestral figure, this is a wonderful example from Papua New Guinea! Size: 13.25" L (33.7 cm); 16.875" H (42.9 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: ex-private lifetime collection of Dr. Saul Tuttman and Dr. Gregory Siskind, New York, New York, USA, 1960s to 1970s

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  • Condition: Expected surface wear with minute nicks to high-pointed areas commensurate with age.

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