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Helmet Mask

1899-1969

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Helmet Mask

1899-1969

Physical Qualities Tree-fern wood, clay, boars' tusks, fiber, feathers, pigments, H. 15 in. (38.1 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.147
Red, white and black pigments
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
Wurtzburger Traveling
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art" , BMA 1956 pg. 36. ills. 147 (frontispiece)
Fernstrom, Katherine W. "The Alan Wurtzburger Oceanic Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art". Pacific Arts. July 1997. pg. 92, 94.
Bonnemaison, Joël, ed. Arts of Vanuatu. University of Hawaii Press, 1996.

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