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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2721893, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome Gary.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree.</p><p>It has all the characteristics of a Batak mask, but it isn&#039;t one I have seen before. They had some really big masks, mostly like the one [USER=8267]@2manybooks[/USER] showed. Some were more decorated, but I have never seen one as decorated as this one. It could be an early souvenir, but I just don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>You could send photos to a museum. There is a Batak museum in Indonesia called the Huta Bolon Simanindo Batak Museum, but I can&#039;t find an email address for them.</p><p>Both the Wereldmuseum and the Tropenmuseum in the Netherlands have Indonesian collections and they have contact info:</p><p><a href="mailto:info@wereldmuseum.nl">info@wereldmuseum.nl</a></p><p><a href="https://www.tropenmuseum.nl/nl/over-het-tropenmuseum/contact" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tropenmuseum.nl/nl/over-het-tropenmuseum/contact" rel="nofollow">info@tropenmuseum.nl </a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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