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Small wooden mask
Object Number 37-77-50/2742
Display Title Small wooden mask
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Ku fi Gli Gli"
Object Description Small wooden mask. "Ku fi Gli Gli." Cooks the dried bits cut off during circumcision of girls, mixed with medicine, for all to eat. These small masks are replicas of perished big masks lost or destroyed. "Cold water" to appease Devils.
Inventory Description Carved wooden mask, human face, ovoid, incised, protruding features, perforated.
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Gbe Clan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 10.9 x 6.2 x 3.4 cm (4 5/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 37-77-50/2742
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937)
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937)

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