Black wooden mask, Nya Glu (Rice bird) - collects debts – Objects

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Object Number 48-36-50/7341

Display Title Black wooden mask, Nya Glu (Rice bird) - collects debts

Descriptions

Indigenous Term "Nya Glü."

Inventory Description Carved wooden mask, moveable jaw, protruding features, teeth, perforated.

Classification

Mask
Raw Material

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Liberia

Additional Geographic Terms Glãwié

Materials Wood, Fiber, Metal, Tooth

Dimensions Overall: 27 x 14 x 13 cm (10 5/8 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 48-36-50/7341; 135

Provenance

Donor Dr. George W. Harley

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
Media Restricted	48-36-50/7344	Black wooden mask adorned with seed beads and a mustache (Ma Va Glu Va) - brings	Shaft, modified Mask Raw Material	Liberia
	48-36-50/7346	Wooden mask with glass, metal, teeth and whiskers (Ni ble bu Glu) - "Small baby Carved wooden mask, metal eyes and features, hair mustache with fiber band. "Ni ble bu Glü."	Mask	Liberia
	48-36-50/7352	Black wooden mask (Di Glu) - "Hungry Devil"	Mask	Tawie
	48-36-50/7354	Gbò Glü (Black wooden mask with metal studs)	Mask	Liberia
	48-36-50/7385	Wooden face mask	Mask	Ivory Coast
	48-36-50/7350	Black wooden mask resembling crocodile (Gbea Glu) - begs fish from men and fish	Mask	Liberia
	40-34-50/4584	Wooden face mask.	Mask	Liberia
	48-36-50/7348	Black wooden mask (Ga si Glu) - This Devil organises small boys into a band for	Mask	Liberia
Media Restricted	48-36-50/7379	Large wooden mask with horns, whiskers, beard, and trimmed with felt (Na Na Glu)	Mask	Guinea
	48-36-50/7372	Wooden face mask	Mask Raw Material	Liberia
	48-36-50/7356	Black wooden mask (To bu Glu) - comes to town when someone dies; all chickens mu	Raw Material Mask	Liberia
	40-34-50/4580	Wooden mask.	Mask	Liberia

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