Crocodile Head Mask

"Awakening" seeks to reconnect the spirit between people and their objects. However this an be difficult. Some of the earliest peices collected by Europeans in the mid-1800's were the stunning masks of the Torres Strait.

Mask-crocodile head, wood, galvanized iron, cassowary feather, plant fibre, pangium edule seed pods, plant fibre

From the Trans Fly coast, PNG
From the collection of Sir Arthur Palmer, donated 1884
Queensland Museum, E2456