IDNO

P.87192.

Description

A man wearing a mask with an elaborate headdress, with a skirt of ?sago palm strips covering most of his body (legs below the knees visible beneath mask). He is holding a ?mosquito whisk in his right hand and ?feathers in the left. [Mark Elliott 30/04/2004]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Sepik

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Source

Cropp, H. B.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.69992 to P.69999 and P.87186 to P.87201 were in the Museum’s paper archive envelope, OA2/10/3, which has now been re-numbered C509/.

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.Publication: The photograph has been digitised for the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) and is accessible on the portal http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/. [SG 30/10/2012]