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Wooden face mask.
Media Restricted
Object Number 37-77-50/3013
Display Title Wooden face mask.
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Zo Ze' Ge" (Priest killing Spirit).
Object Description Black wood mask with a central brow ridge, horizontal slit eyes bordered with strips of copper alloy sheet metal, a broad nose, and wide projecting mouth with real teeth and a moveable lower mandible with plant fiber braided beard strung with seedpods, horn and iron. Wooden face mask. Long, rounded forms, metal ringed eyes, large open mouth, white teeth, moveable jaw, fiber beard with trinkets (little horns, beads, and iron attached).
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, black, moveable jaw, animal fur and teeth, fiber fringe
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Mano
  • Konor
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia / <State> / <County> / Ya Mai
Materials Wood, Metal, Rayon, Embroidery floss, Hair, Tooth, Plant fiber, Skin, Horn
Dimensions Overall: 39.5 x 23.8 x 14.4 cm (15 9/16 x 9 3/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 37-77-50/3013
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937 - 1937)
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (1936-1937)

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