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Dress like dancing masks for death dance
Dress like dancing masks for death dance
Object Number 53-47-30/7519
Display Title Dress like dancing masks for death dance
Descriptions
Object Description 3 Dress like dancing masks for death dance, painted designs on bark cloth hoop from which long raffia skirt? hangs
Inventory Description Dance dress, more or less conical in shape, woven with hooped raffia? skirt, two sleeves, hour glass-shaped ornament at top with plant fiber tie, painted black and brown geometric designs on torso
Classification
  • Costume
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Colombia
Additional Geographic Terms Rio Kuduyare; Rio Vaupes, affluent of
Materials Plant fiber , Raffia? , Pigment
Dimensions Overall (Measurement does not include raffia skirt): 70 × 51 × 38.5 cm (27 9/16 × 20 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53-47-30/7519
Provenance
Collector Dr. Richard Evans Schultes (1953)

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