mask
- Museum number
- Oc1989,07.1
- Description
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Mask of wood inlaid with pearlshell.
- Production date
- 1960s
- Curator's comments
- This style of carving was developed for the export market in the latter 20th century.
See Kupianen, J. (2000) Tradition, Trade and Woodcarving in Solomon Islands. Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society 45
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Acquisition notes
- Dick Horton was a colonial officer in Solomon Islands from 1937 and throughout the Second World War. The Donations book entry states that this mask was 'bought by the donor on Guadalcanal, in 1968, from a Rennell Islander.'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1989,07.1
