"Kaiva Kuku" Mask

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"Kaiva Kuku" Mask

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Te Papa Collections Online

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Painted tapa This kaiva kuku mask of painted tapa is mounted on a cane framework structure. Wooden sticks have been stitched to the tapa creating eyes, mouth and a protruding forehead. The mask has a cone-shaped head and short wooden teeth. Spirit mask In the early 1900s, a young boy wore this tapa mask during the kovave cycle, a ceremony of initiation into adulthood. The mask originally had hibiscus fibre threads hanging from it, and probably another tall section on top. Its ostrich look wa...

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/163446

Related subjects

bark cloth / masks / ceremonial objects / Melanesian / Papua New Guinean / Papua New Guinea / Sidney Macdonell

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