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Small wooden mask
Object Number 37-77-50/2731
Display Title Small wooden mask
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Ma: ya wa: ya"
Object Description Small wooden mask. "Ma: ya wa: ya" -- "When I wear a hairpin no one else may wear." Goes about in daytime seizing hairpins. Owner may redeem hers by giving 20 kola nuts to Devil's interpreter. Cf. 50/2675.
Inventory Description Carved wooden mask, human face, ovoid, incised, perforated.
Classification
  • Mask
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Gbe Clan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 9.1 x 6.1 x 2.7 cm (3 9/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 37-77-50/2731; L52/ 2/ IVA
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937)
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937)

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