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Passport mask
Object Number 985-17-50/12061
Display Title Passport mask
Descriptions
Object Description Personal wood mask with aluminium passport mask (ma mask) small dark brown wood mask. thin oval slit eyes with carved indentation framing them. forehead framed with thickly braided orange/brown fiber for hair. hair attached by white strung through 10 of the 11 holes around the face.
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, human face, ovoid, incised, perforated, fiber hair.
Classification
  • Mask
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Dan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Ivory Coast
Africa / Liberia
Materials Wood, Fiber, Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 12.2 x 7.2 x 1.8 cm (4 13/16 x 2 13/16 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 985-17-50/12061; Dan"passport" mask. Ivory Coast/ 417 $29.50
Provenance
Collector Robin H. Mix (1985 - 1985)
Collector Kendall A. Mix (1985 - 1985)

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