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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
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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