Cleveland Museum of Art

Yam Mask

Date

1900s

Medium

pigment, basketry

Culture

Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Abelam People, 20th century

Department

Oceania

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Abelam men compete in growing extraordinarily large yams (over a meter in length), which they then display, adorned with basketry masks.

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