A NEW IRELAND MASK, with long ears, the face with finely incised curved bands, the pierced eyes inset with shell operculae, flanges to forehead and cheeks, rectangular chin below the pierced mouth flanked by twisted fibre lengths, the inset nose panel pierced and carved as a bird (damages), painted in red, blue, white and black

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A NEW IRELAND MASK, with long ears, the face with finely incised curved bands, the pierced eyes inset with shell operculae, flanges to forehead and cheeks, rectangular chin below the pierced mouth flanked by twisted fibre lengths, the inset nose panel pierced and carved as a bird (damages), painted in red, blue, white and black
69cm. high

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