My wife scored three nice Papua New Guinea pieces at an estate sale this past weekend--two masks and a suspension hook. The house was small and had nothing else tropical to it. An appraiser confirmed that these are tourist pieces, but by golly, they're nice tourist pieces. First up is a spirit mask originating from Mindabit (Mindimbit) Village at the junction of the Sepik and Karawari Rivers in Papua New Guinea. This is the only piece that came with any type of documentation and describes the mask as having "legendary bird on forehead." There are holes along the length of the bird that look like some kind of decoration was tied there in the past. It is my understanding these date from sometime after 1960.







