Monochrome Ancestral Mask with Elongated Chin from Papua New Guinea
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- Monochrome / Monochromatic - A painting or drawing finished in a single colour, or in different shades of a single color.
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New Guinea tribal artefacts
- masks and helmets 510
- other artefacts 1,213
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