Mask (Tatanua)
19th century
Maker Unknown
Arts of the Pacific Islands
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Masks
- Formatted Medium
- Wood, rattan, bark cloth, fiber, sea sponge, tapestry turban snail (Turbo petholatus) opercula, pigment
- Medium
- wood, rattan, bark, cloth, fiber, sea, sponge, tapestry, turban, snail, turbo, petholatus, opercula, pigment
- Locations
- Place made: New Ireland, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
- Dimensions
- 17 × 12 × 13 in. (43.2 × 30.5 × 33 cm)
- Inscribed
- "01.180" written in ink on inside of mask
- Departments
- Arts of the Pacific Islands
- Accession Number
- X1033
- Credit Line
- Brooklyn Museum Collection
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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