Oceanic Art - Image Enlargement

apr_07_149

apr_07_149

apr_07_149

This whimsical little face is an unusually composed wood yam mask from either the Eastern Abelam area or their immediate neighbors the Bukie people—Margaret Mead’s Plains Arapesh. This piece has a pleasingly round ancestral face and two projections on each end with holes where it would have been lashed to the long yam. The yam mask is 8 ¾" in height. sold