hip decoration, dance mask, dance mask
- Description:
- Hip ornament/dance mask built up on a frame of leaf ribs from coconut palm, wrapped with a rattan. In the middle a face sealed in a plant marrow, probably fairytale palm. The face is painted with red primer and then overpainted with white lime so that red patterns in typical “Sepicstil” appear. The face is surrounded by a wreath of fourteen curved ribs, all of which are adorned with a ngn. kind of fruit and a cylinder shaped piece of plant marrow, painted red and white. Below the face, the carcass continues with six long arcuate curved ribs that are finally adorned with a white spring. Masks like this are worn around the hip when dancing so that the face is turned backwards. [Enl. Gen.Kat. three animal heads of plant marrow shall be on the ribs, these missing.]
- Location:
- Papua New Guinea
- Format:
- image
- Collections:
- Museum of Ethnography
- Content partner:
- Museum of Ethnography
- Availability:
- Not specified
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