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Mask
Pierced eyes and attachment holes suggest that this object may have been made for dance, but its masking tradition is not well documented.
- Recorded culture
- Romkun, Breri or Igana people
- Place
- Papua New Guinea
- Date
- 19th century
- Materials
- Wood
What the record supports
The Metropolitan Museum of Art records the cultural attribution as Romkun, Breri or Igana people. Its catalogue notes that the likely performance context is an interpretation based on physical evidence rather than a complete historical account.