Overmodelled masks

For my diplomawork on overmodelled masks from the Sepik region in
Papua New Guinea (PNG), I am looking for conservators and scientists
who have experience with the identification of tropical wood and/or
masses used in PNG for overmodelling masks and skulls (the mass on
the objects I am working with seems to be made of two different
kinds of clay, tree-oil and lime),or who have already worked on
overmodelled or similar masks from that region.

Marianne Klaus
Student at the ESAA (Ecole superieure d'arts appliques),
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Section Conservation-Restoration of Ethnographical and
Archaeological Objects


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