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Wooden face mask.
Object Number 37-77-50/2791
Display Title Wooden face mask.
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Yei dia" (Laughing all the time)
Object Description Black mask with crescent shaped eye slits, painted white band across the eyes and a vertical ridge in the center of the forehead. Teeth are inserted into the mouth and a wooden ear-plug is attached to the proper right ear with plant fiber cordage. Cordage loops and metal hooks around the perimeter of the mask would have allowed for additional elements to be attached to the mask.
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, black pigment, white stripe, 1 metal, 2 bone teeth, holes at
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1937
Culture
  • Mano
  • Somi clan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia / <State> / <County> / Be Town
Materials Wood, Metal, Plant fiber, Pigment, Bone, Copper alloy, Iron, Tooth, Plant fiber
Dimensions Overall: 22.2 x 17 x 8.4 cm (8 3/4 x 6 11/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 37-77-50/2791
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Museum Improvements-Collections Fund, 1936-1937
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937)

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