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Mask worn in dances in which the participants represent ghosts and spirits. The mask is made of a light bamboo frame, covered with tapa or beaten bark-cloth. The fringe covers the wearer down to the ankles. Elema tribe, Gulf of Papua, New Guinea. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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This is plate XIII in Dixon, Roland (1916). "Melanesia". Oceanic. The Mythology of All Races. Vol. IX. Boston: Marshall Jones. pp. 101–150.. The description above is the caption given there. |
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