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Property from an American Private collects ion

Mask, Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

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October 28, 04:43 PM GTNN

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Property from an American Private collects ion


Mask, Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea


Height: 13 ¾ in (35 cm)


The interior inscribed in black ink: "32846. Parkinson"


Blue-Eyed Cockatoo (Cacatua opthalmica) and Purple-Bellied Lory (Lorius hypoinochrous) feathers, bark, lime-clay mixture, bamboo, leaves, fibre, remains of pigment

Richard Parkinson, Herbertshöhe (present day Kokopo), New Britain, collects ed in situ

Linden-Museum, Stuttgart (inv. no. 32846), acquired from the above in 1903

Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, acquired from the above by exchange on February 19, 1969

Mathias Komor, New York (inv. no. I150), presumably acquired from the above

Acquired from the above by the present owner on January 17, 1970