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Large wooden face mask.
Object Number 48-36-50/7360
Display Title Large wooden face mask.
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Bie Si."
Object Description Black wood mask with oval cut out eye holes, a triangular nose, bulging cheeks and a wide projecting mouth with real teeth and a moveable lower mandible with plant fiber braided beard strung with seedpods, iron sheet. Large rectangular wooden face mask. Projecting cheekbones and open mouth with paste. Incesed lines on forehad and beads on braided cord. Holes. Reverse: Curved laterals
Inventory Description Carved wooden mask, incised, moveable jaw, braided fibers with shell.
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Gio
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Additional Geographic Terms Lepula
Materials Wood, Metal, Shell, Textile, Plant fiber, Seed pod, Tooth, Resin
Dimensions Overall: 34.6 x 13.2 x 11.2 cm (13 5/8 x 5 3/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 48-36-50/7360
Provenance
Donor Dr. George W. Harley

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