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Wooden face mask
Object Number 48-36-50/7373
Display Title Wooden face mask
Descriptions
Indigenous Term "Pia Se."
Object Description Wooden face mask with long, projecting features, moveable jaw, and fiber beard. Wood facemask with tubular eye, a long wide nose, flanges at the cheeks and a protruding open mouth with carved teeth and tongue. A 'beard' of plant fiber braids is attached to the bottom of the mask. See the Conservation Record for additional information on materials and manufacture.
Inventory Description Carved wooden mask, anthropomorphic, braided fiber beard, perf., metal, incised.
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kra
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Additional Geographic Terms Blewali
Materials Wood, Pigment, Metal, Fiber, Plant fiber, Iron, Ceramic?
Dimensions Overall: 67 x 22.5 x 17.5 cm (26 3/8 x 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 48-36-50/7373; 114
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1947-1948 - 1948)
Donor Dr. George W. Harley

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