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Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf
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Mask (hokore)
Papuan Gulf, Elema area, Karama Village
Bark cloth, rattan, plant fiber and pith, pigment; 31 x 12 1/2 x 13 in. (78.7 x 31.8 x 33 cm)
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, Vt., Collected by A. P. Goodwin 1885
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This mask represents a hornbill or a crocodile; the latter is the totemic emblem of a clan in Karama Village, located east of Kerema. Like the other hokore on view in this exhibition, this mask would have been performed in a group of similar masks.
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