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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
"The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art", January 7th-March 4th 1956, Baltimore Museum of Art
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.

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