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Object Number 2004.24.34593.1
Display Title Mask
Descriptions
Object Description Mask, T2668
Subject
  • Mask
Department Photographic
Date November 1999
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Pende
  • Songye
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Congo
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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