Mask (Mai)
Unidentified Iatmul maker
Middle Sepik River
Sepik River
Papua New Guinea
probably about 1960
Wood, conus shell, cowrie shell, and black pigment
Overall: 21 in. (53.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27337
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Basis for Design: Visual Problem Solving, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Studio Art 10, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 31-April 26, 1998.
Changing Traditions in Pacific Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 7-November 10, 2002.
Provenance
Acquired by Harry A. Franklin (1903-1983), Los Angeles, California, in the 1950s; to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.
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