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Object Number
2004.24.19535
Display Title
Black wooden mask with bird-like beak, Kpo go
Descriptions
Keywords
- Mask and Headdress
- Ethnographic
- Studio
Subject
- Wood
- Mask
- Beak
- Zoomorphic
Department
Photographic
Date
1948
Artist
Frederick P. Orchard
Culture
- Ngere
- Mano
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Guinea
/
<State>
/
<County>
/
<City>
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Kpao
Materials
Negative, nitrate
Dimensions
Overall: 8.89 x 12.07 cm (3 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48-36-50/7384 | Wooden face mask |
Mask
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Guinea
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| 48-36-50/7318 | Black wooden mask with bird-like beak (Nos gbo Ge) - "Bird beak Devil". Sent to |
Mask
|
Liberia
| |
| 37-77-50/2733 | Small wooden mask. "Zwa Kpea Kpo Gli." |
Mask
|
Liberia
| |
| 2004.24.19500B | Black wooden mask, Wai Los (kpelle) |
Busi
| ||
| 2004.24.19500A | Black wooden mask, Wai Los |
Busi
| ||
| 48-36-50/7315 | Black wooden mask - (Wai los, Kpelle; ToGe, Mano). Hears palaver and has a sacri |
Mask
|
Liberia
| |
| 2004.24.19503 | Black wooden mask, Bloge (Mano), Yi Bo Gei GO (Gio) |
Liberia
| ||
| 48-36-50/7317 | Black wooden mask with fur around snout (To la Ge) - comes to town when anyone |
Mask
Raw Material |
Liberia
| |
| 2004.24.19519 | Black wooden mask, Die Si. Messenger to Go Glu |
Lepula
| ||
| 2004.24.19499 | Black wooden mask, Go Ge |
Gompa
| ||
| 2004.24.30383 | black wooden mask (go-ge); belonged to Bunga |
Gompa
| ||
| 2004.24.30152 | Bird mask; raven sun clan made with beak in four parts; quax emlh |
Harbledown Island
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