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Large wooden mask.
Object Number 37-77-50/2696
Display Title Large wooden mask.
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Du Gli"
Object Description Large wooden mask. Long, moveable maul, long tubular eyes, angular cheeks and nose. Two rows of patterning on forehead. Reverse: blackened,light weight wood with a smoothly finished surface, hollow for nose, and rectangular holes.
Inventory Description Carved wooden mask, anthropomorphic, long mouth/snout, moveable jaw.
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Ge
  • Kra
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia / <State> / Kpeiapli
Materials Wood, Metal, Leather
Dimensions Overall: 42.3 x 13.5 x 13 cm (16 5/8 x 5 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 37-77-50/2696; 34
Provenance
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937)

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