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LOT 2393
New Guinea Wooden House Mask
PAPUAN, EARLY-MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.
25 1/4 in. (1.55 kg, 64 cm).
Carved as an elongated face with feather headdress, inlaid with cowrie shells and with hog tusks to the nose; grip handle in front of the mouth. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Bury St Edmunds, UK, ethnographical collection.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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