Eharo (Barkcloth Mask)
Unidentified probably Elema maker
Eastern Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
collected 1885
Bark cloth, rattan, plant fiber and pith, natural pigment
Overall: 29 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 4 15/16 in. (75 × 36.8 × 12.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
53.65.13194
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 74, The Human Spectrum, Nate Dominy, Spring 2022
Anthropology 50.34, Native American and Indigenous Studies 30.28, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Ancestors, Spirits, and Families: Expressing Relationships in Melanesian Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 11-June 30, 1996.
Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-September 17, 2006; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, October 24-September 2, 2007.
Recontextualizing 'Primitive' Art: Melanesian and African Works, An Exhibition in Process, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 72, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 25, 1997
Publication History
Robert L. Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, and Sebastian Haraha, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. front cover and p. 28.
Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco, Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, 461 pp., ill. p. 351.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 127, ill. plate no. 58.
Provenance
Collected by Henry Clay Ide (1844-1921, Class of 1866), between 1893-1897; given to his daughter Anne Louisa Ide Cockran (1876-1945); given to The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; received by present collection in an exchange, 1953.
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