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Wooden face mask.
Object Number 37-77-50/2824
Display Title Wooden face mask.
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Du gbi Gli" (Cow eating Devil)
Object Description Black wood mask with a central brow ridge, tubular eyes, broad nose, and wide projecting mouth with teeth and moveable lower mandible with plant fiber braided beard strung with glass beads and seedpods. Wooden face mask. Broad large open mouth, tubular eyes, and fiber beard with beads.
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, anthropomorphic, perforated, fiber beard with beads and seeds
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Mano
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Additional Geographic Terms Ge Country, near
Materials Wood, Metal, Fiber, Seed pod, Glass, Plant fiber, Seed, Glass, Iron
Dimensions Overall: 44 x 20.5 x 12 cm (17 5/16 x 8 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 37-77-50/2824; 164
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937 - 1937)
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937)

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