Spirit Masks

 

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Masks are made in great secrecy in the men's house when the time has come to drive spirits if ancestors to Safan (Land of the Dead).

 Item Number 3-175
Item Number 6-23-1

OBJECT: Spirit Mask ARTIST:                                      VILLAGE: Weo 
MATERIAL: Sago fibre, rattan and lime
SIZE: 58"                              
DATE COLLECTED:2002
COMMENTS: Made by a child.

 

OBJECT: Spirit Mask Doroe ARTIST:                                      VILLAGE: 
MATERIAL: Wood, sago fiber, rattan,knotted string, lime and red ochre feathers and seeds.
SIZE:  77"                           
DATE COLLECTED:2003

COMMENTS:


 Item Number 081-96
Item Number 95

OBJECT: Orphan mask
ARTIST: Soter Oman             VILLAGE: Omandesep   MATERIAL: Wood, sago fiber, rattan, lime, red ochre and feathers
SIZE: 158cm                                    DATE COLLECTED: 2000

COMMENTS: Orphan mask. Named for Paperem. Soter Oman. Omandesep. Shirt of sago leaves,
body of rattan,lime,red ochre,charcoal,wood piece in nose,seeds and feathers.

 

OBJECT: Spirit Mask
ARTIST:        
VILLAGE:  
MATERIAL: Wood, sago fiber, rattan, lime and red ochre
SIZE: 61.3"                          
DATE COLLECTED:
COMMENTS: Eyes, nose piece and penis of wood.



 Item Number 103
Item Number 150-54

OBJECT: Spirit Mask ARTIST:                
VILLAGE:  
MATERIAL: Wood, sago fiber, rattan, lime and red ochre
SIZE: 64"                              
DATE COLLECTED:
COMMENTS: Double wooden hornbill for eye projections.

 
 

OBJECT: Spirit Mask "Ofnere"
ARTIST: Esakap Esow                VILLAGE: Erogo  
MATERIAL: Wood, sago fiber, rattan, lime and red ochre
SIZE: 74"                                           DATE COLLECTED: 2002
COMMENTS: Head made of fiber with tassels of sago fibre attached, eyes of string. Bodice of rattan, shirt and sleeves sago fibre, red ochre. Made by Esakap Esow for Mother (Berama). Mask called Ofnere.


 Item Number 316    

OBJECT: Spirit Mask
ARTIST: Alex Datib                    VILLAGE: Pupis 
MATERIAL: Wood, sago fiber, feathers, rattan, lime, charcoal and red ochre
SIZE: 73"                    
DATE COLLECTED:2000

COMMENTS: Fertility. The person wearing the mask during the feast touches the young boys and girls on the breasts and genitals to ensure fertility.

 
 
 
 

 

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