SEPIK RIVER SMALL BASKETRY MASK

SEPIK RIVER SMALL BASKETRY MASK

Sawos or Iatmul, Papua New Guinea

14 cm. high

** Provenance
Stolper Galleries, Munich

Cf. Phelps, S., "Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas : The James Hooper Collection", London, 1976, p.130, no.988, for a related mask, described as a shoulder mask, acquired by James Hooper from the Lord Hambledon collection, Berkshire, in 1951. Such masks were worn on the back of the head and on the shoulders and were ofter tied on to larger body costume masks.