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Mask of a Hawaiian god

    Information about the exhibit

    • Ethnicity: Hawaiians
    • Place of creation: Indonesia
    • Geographical location of place of creation: Indonesia
    • Material: wood
    • Technique: factory production
    • Size: length – 30 cm, width – 10 cm
    • Time of creation: early 2020s
    • Collector: private individual Pale Sofia Evgenyevna (1976-2024)
    • Usage period: early 2020s
    • Use: home interior object
    • Condition: good
    • Keywords: Indonesia, peoples of Australia and Oceania, Papuans, West Papua

    Historical and cultural commentary

    Produced in Indonesia on commission for the Hawaiians. Presumably, it depicts the Hawaiian god of war Ku. The mask is ornamented and painted in a traditional Indonesian style.

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