A RARE NEW IRELAND MASK

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A RARE NEW IRELAND MASK
The whitened face with carved teeth in the open mouth, the pierced eyes with attached shell operculae, central band with notched border to the chin, hatched brows and hatched band on the forehead, gum about the border inset with abrus seeds, the fibre coiffure in three ridges flanked by whitened panels
40cm. high

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Gunn, M., Ritual Arts of Oceania New Ireland, Milan 1997, p.80, fig.90, illustrates a very similar mask in the British Museum, collected in August 1875 in Katherine Harbour on the central west coast of New Ireland on the voyage of S.M.S. Gazelle. Another is in the Barbier Mueller Museum, Geneva (ill. opp.p.80, no.8) and one from the collection of Lt.-Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt-Rivers was sold at Sotheby's (25 May 1999, Lot 152A). Gunn explains that the masks are exceptionally rare, only about a dozen being known, and that they may not be part of the malagan tradition found further north. Those with collection data come from the central and south west coast and may have links to other masks further south.