Twice a month, an artwork from the Foundation is narrated in pictures. This week, Isabelle Tassignon, curator of the Ethnology collection, presents an Apouema costume and mourning mask, from New Caledonia.

Apouema costume and mourning mask
First half of the 19^th century
New Caledonia, Grande Terre
Wood, notou feathers, coconut palm leaves, human hair, tapa, fruit bat hair, vegetable fibres
120 x 40 x 50 cm
FGA-ETH-OC-0064

Narrated by Dr Isabelle Tassignon, curator of the Ethnology collection