Helmet Mask (Baba)
Unidentified Abelam maker
Maprik Region
Sepik River Area
Papua New Guinea
20th century
Basketry, with slip, black, white, red ochre, yellow ochre pigment
Overall: 16 in. (40.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27621
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 50.34, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Fall 2021
ANTH 50.34, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Fall 2021
Exhibition History
Ancestors, Spirits, and Families: Expressing Relationships in Melanesian Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 11-June 30, 1996.
Peoples of Oceania: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-30, 1995.
Recontextualizing 'Primitive' Art: Melanesian and African Works, An Exhibition in Process, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 72, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, March 29-April 14, 1997.
Provenance
Acquired by Harry A. Franklin (1903-1983), Los Angeles, California, in the 1950s; bequeathed to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.
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