I found an image in Huber's Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures that I've been wanting to incorporate into a pot for a while. It's identified as an owl mask from the Baining people of New Britain, an island east of New Guinea and politically a part of Papua New Guinea.
I'm not sure if I like it yet, but I would like to point out that the original doesn't look much more like an owl than this does.
Part of me thinks that I should have left the pot unadorned.
