Dance Mask
Unidentified maker (New Britain)
Central Gazelle Peninsula
Tapa and rattan
Overall: 29 1/4 in. (74.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall
S.973.321
Geography
Place Made: New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Anthropology of Religion, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 48, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 2, 2004.
Recent Acquisitions, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-27, 1974.
Rotunda, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 16-October 1974.
Provenance
Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005); given to present collection, 1973.
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