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Mask (Mawa)
Wood-Sculpture, mid-19th–early 20th century
Australia, Saibai Island, Torres Strait
Wood, paint, shells, cloth, wool, fiber; H. 19 7/8 x W. 8 1/4 x D. 5 3/4 in. (50.5 x 21 x 14.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.1412)
Comment: the file name is misleading; it probably originated in a typo in the accession number.
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