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Kasangu mask - wood mask with woven split cane headdress
Kasangu mask - wood mask with woven split cane headdress
Object Number 969-40-50/11321
Display Title Kasangu mask - wood mask with woven split cane headdress
Descriptions
Object Description Carved wood mask with black and white painted stylized face with woven grass spheres on the top of the head and one sphere suspended fron the chin; grass net head piece. Mask. Typical example of a kasangu mask of the Sala Mpasu's Ibuku society with a swelling forehead, deeply set eyes, broad triangular nose and a rectangular mouth with two rows of sharpened teeth. The mask has a headdress composed of balls of woven split cane attached with a twined plant fiber netting. A plaited plant fiber beard with a single woven split cane ball is attached to the chin. See the Conservation record for additional descriptive and technological information.
Inventory Description Mask, carved and black and white painted wood, fiber ball headdress and chin
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Salam Pasu
  • Basalampasu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Congo
Additional Geographic Terms Congo region
Materials Wood, Vegetable fiber, Pigment, Cane, Plant fiber
Dimensions Overall: 52 x 27 x 26 cm (20 1/2 x 10 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 969-40-50/11321

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