Baining Fire Dance Mask
Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain, Papua New Guinea
1950s
Height 18" Width 18"
Provenance: Maslyn Williams, Sydney well-known author and filmmaker.
Publication: Stone Age Island "Seven Years in New Guinea', Masly Williams, London 1964 Page 171 (mask is illustrated being worn"
A remarkable and used tapa cloth mask from this remote group in New Britain.
Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain, Papua New Guinea
1950s
Height 18" Width 18"
Provenance: Maslyn Williams, Sydney well-known author and filmmaker.
Publication: Stone Age Island "Seven Years in New Guinea', Masly Williams, London 1964 Page 171 (mask is illustrated being worn"
A remarkable and used tapa cloth mask from this remote group in New Britain.
Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain, Papua New Guinea
1950s
Height 18" Width 18"
Provenance: Maslyn Williams, Sydney well-known author and filmmaker.
Publication: Stone Age Island "Seven Years in New Guinea', Masly Williams, London 1964 Page 171 (mask is illustrated being worn"
A remarkable and used tapa cloth mask from this remote group in New Britain.