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Dance mask, cubistic, with cloth headdress
Dance mask, cubistic, with cloth headdress
Object Number 58-55-50/10368
Display Title Dance mask, cubistic, with cloth headdress
Descriptions
Inventory Description Mask, carved and pigmented linear motif, articulated features, cloth headdress
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bushongo
  • Bushongo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Belgian Congo
Materials Wood, Reed, Cotton fabric, Cowrie, Vegetable fiber, Pigment, Metal, Wool
Dimensions Overall: 26.7 x 45 x 39 cm (10 1/2 x 17 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 58-55-50/10368/ 195 59
Provenance
Collector Mr. Eliot Elisofon (1951)
Owner Nymi Bope Mabinshe
Donor Donated by Mr. Eliot Elisofon (1958-1959)

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