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Didagur mask

Civilization Blackwater River, Kapriman People, Papua New Guinea

End of 19th century or beginning of 20th century

Length: 55 cm

Basketry, cassowary feathers, white and red pigment

Didagur is a male or female spirit that inhabits the water or the hollows of trees, and it could be induced to inhabit this mask during the times it was being worn

Provenance

Collection Schleipper, Brussels, in Belgium since the 1920´s

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