Kopar Mask

Artist Unknown (New Guinea, Lower Sepik)

Place of OriginNew Guinea, Lower Sepik

Datelate 19th-early 20th Century

Dimensions31 in. (78.7 cm)

MediumWood

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange

Object number

2024.12

Not on View

Published ReferencesBarbier-Mueller, J.P. Indonésie et Mélanésie: Art tribal et cultures archaïques des mers du Sud. Genève, 1977, pp. 67 et 110. Boyer, A.-M., Butor, M., et Morin, F. L’homme et ses masques: Chefs-d’oeuvre des musées Barbier-Mueller. Genève, 2005, pp. 116-117 et 332. Kaufmann, C. Masques d’Océanie: Introduction à l’art de la Mélanésie. Genève, 1985, no. 1 (non ill.). Newton, D. Arts des mers du sud: Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronésie. Collections du musée Barbier-Mueller/Art of the South Seas: Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia. The Collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller. Paris, 1998, p. 200, no. 16. Peltier, P., et al. Ombres de Nouvelle-Guinée: Arts de la grande île d’Océanie dans les collections Barbier-Mueller/Shadows of New Guinea: Art of the Great Island of Oceania from the Barbier-Mueller Collections. Paris, 2006, pp. 128 et 413, no. 65.Exhibition HistoryGeneva, Barbier-Mueller Museum, Masks of Oceania: Introduction to the art of Melanesia, April 1st, 1985. Paris, Mona Bismarck American Center, Shadows of New Guinea: Arts of the Great Island of Oceania in the Barbier-Mueller Collections, October 3rd - November 25th, 2006.