A rare Malagan headdress, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

keverats, of tall, architectural proportions, the helmet mask with inset opercula (turbo petholatus) eyes and looped tendrils below, all beneath eight attenuated projections at the crown; aged surface with red, ochre, black and white pigment.

Reportedly Dr. Georg and Lore Kegel, Hamburg
Ernst Heinrich, Stuttgart
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 21, 1967, lot 67
Acquired at the above auction

Good condition overall. Minor stabilizing repairs at the vertical flanges and one of the lower tendrils. Minor abrasions to the surface from age and use within the culture.
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