Cloth hat worn by wooden mask Go Glu

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Object Number 48-36-50/7342

Display Title Cloth hat worn by wooden mask Go Glu

Descriptions

Indigenous Term "Go Glu."

Inventory Description Woven cotton and fiber hat, multi-colored, leather, metal bells, shells, hair.

Classification

Hat
Raw Material
Shaft, modified

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Liberia

Additional Geographic Terms Glãwié

Materials Cotton, Fiber, Metal, Shell, Pigment, Hair, Cloth

Dimensions Overall: 38.5 x 29 cm (15 3/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Quantity 2

Label on object 48-36-50/7342

Provenance

Donor Dr. George W. Harley

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	2004.24.19519	Black wooden mask, Die Si. Messenger to Go Glu		Lepula
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
Media Restricted	48-36-50/7379	Large wooden mask with horns, whiskers, beard, and trimmed with felt (Na Na Glu)	Mask	Guinea
	48-36-50/7346	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
	2004.24.19538	Black wooden mask adorned with shells, beads, and cloth. Gba Glu		Ivory Coast
	2004.24.19520	Black wooden mask worn under armpit by Ka Glu		Lepula
	48-36-50/7345	Black wooden mask with cloth headdress adorned with shells, white and red around	Ornament	Liberia
	24-48-60/D2097.1	Hat, birdskin and feather hat with earflaps, red cloth ties, worn	Hat	Siberia
Media Restricted	991-17-30/11702B	Hat for ritual dance mask of the good devil type, used by "enmascarados"	Hat Shaft, modified	Ecuador
	40-34-50/4594	Wooden mask - small forerunner of big devil god. "Zã nã Glü."	Raw Material Mask	Liberia
	48-36-50/7352	Black wooden mask (Di Glu) - "Hungry Devil"	Mask	Tawie
	48-36-50/7350	Black wooden mask resembling crocodile (Gbea Glu) - begs fish from men and fish	Mask	Liberia

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