Torricelli Mask

  • Title
    Abstracted Mask
  • Location
    Torricelli Mountains , Sandaun Province
  • Date
    1960s
  • Size
    40cm (L) x 7cm (W)
  • Price
    SOLD

This mask is from the Torricelli Mountains in  Papua New Guinea   Little is known about this style mask.  I have seen other similar examples with tapering elongated noses but none which have been so heavily abstracted as seen in this form.   It is encrusted with a dark black pigment.  Its simplified shape and form displays beautifully on a custom polished wooden base and metal stand.

 

 

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This mask is from the Torricelli Mountains in  Papua New Guinea   Little is known about this style mask.  I have seen other similar examples with tapering elongated noses but none which have been so heavily abstracted as seen in this form.   It is encrusted with a dark black pigment.  Its simplified shape and form displays beautifully on a custom polished wooden base and metal stand.