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Wooden gable mask

Wooden gable mask

20th century
Object PlacePapua New Guinea
Medium/TechniqueWood, pigment
DimensionsLegacy: 24 1/2 x 11 in.
Credit LineBequest of William E. Teel
Accession number2014.106
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMasks
ProvenanceBy 1962, exchanged with an unknown dealer in Baltimore by Royal-Athena Galleries, New York; November 28, 1962, sold by Royal-Athena Galleries to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)
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late 19th century
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mid to late 20th century
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