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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."
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."
Object Number 48-36-50/7346
Display Title 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."
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Ni ble bu Glü."
Object Description Wooden mask with glass, metal, teeth and whiskers (Ni ble bu Glu) - "Small baby eater". Eats cooked kidnapped baby in return for which he gives advice to the town
Inventory Description Carved wooden mask, metal eyes and features, hair mustache with fiber band.
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Gio
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Additional Geographic Terms Gopli
Materials Wood, Metal, Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 23 x 21 x 8 cm (9 1/16 x 8 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 48-36-50/7346; 121
Provenance
Donor Dr. George W. Harley

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