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Wooden face mask
Object Number 33-55-50/123
Display Title Wooden face mask
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Wai Ge"
Object Description Wooden face mask with forehead patterning, tubular eyes, and moveable jaw. Looks like war mask genre. All blackened, but with signs of surface wear. Obverse: Flat, difficult to wear. Holes.
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, anthropomorphic, perforated, moveable jaw, fiber ties
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Ge
  • Mande-fu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Materials Wood, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 23.5 x 15.3 x 11.1 cm (9 1/4 x 6 x 4 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 33-55-50/123
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1933)
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (1933)

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