Unknown
(Australia)
- Title
- Turtle Shell Mask
- Other titles:
- Torres Strait Islander turtle shell mask
- Place of origin
-
Torres Strait Islands →
Australia
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- turtle shell, shells, pearl shell, fibre string, infilled lime decoration
- Dimensions
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46.0 x 18.0cm mask; 66.0 x 37.0 x 7.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1996
- Accession number
- 559.1996
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Margie West (Australia) (Author), Theresa Willsteed (Editor), One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, Sydney, 2007, 18 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
-
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997.
Dari a Krar: Headdresses and Masks of the Torres Strait, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 01 Apr 2006–31 Mar 2008.
