Malanggan (Malagan) Mask

What do we know?

While the artists of New Ireland continue to execute the designs handed down to them by their ancestors, their artistic expressions are not merely the product of a static tradition. Each generation includes motifs relevant to its own experience. The creator of this mask included representations of two figures in European dress. The mask is wood. It was made since 1900. It is from the country of New Ireland in Melanesia.

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