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Object Number 53-47-30/7520.5
Display Title Painted pitch Yurupari mask (devil) on bark cloth hood - long black raffia tassels
Descriptions
Object Description Painted pitch masks (devil) on bark cloth (14) - long black raffia tassels Jurupari Mask
Inventory Description Mask, resin circle w/ protruding brow ridge and nose, eye holes, painted w/ ye
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Date ca 1940s-1950s
Culture
  • Yukuna
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Colombia
Dimensions Overall: 79 x 27 x 8 cm (31 1/8 x 10 5/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53-47-30/7520 / 53-47-30/7520.5 / XXXI
Provenance
Collector Dr. Richard Evans Schultes (1953)

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