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Object Number
58-55-50/10203
Display Title
Hood mask with painted face and fiber ruff
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Carved wooden mask, human head with animal on top, painted, raffia fringe.
Classification
- Mask
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Bayaka
- Northern Yaka
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
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Congo
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<County>
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Muela Buanda village
Additional Geographic Terms
Democratic Republic of Congo, Southwest; Kasongo Lunda
Dimensions
Overall: 40.5 x 43 x 64 cm (15 15/16 x 16 15/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Collector
Mr. Eliot Elisofon
(1951)
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