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Mask with cowrie shells (black with white and red around eyes); Me fei Glu, a she devil who sacrificed cow to ancestors to remove pestilence or bad luck.
Mask with cowrie shells (black with white and red around eyes); Me fei Glu, a she devil who sacrificed cow to ancestors to remove pestilence or bad luck.
Object Number 2004.24.30246
Display Title Mask with cowrie shells (black with white and red around eyes); Me fei Glu, a she devil who sacrificed cow to ancestors to remove pestilence or bad luck.
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Mask and Headdress
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Cowrie
  • Shell
  • Mask
  • Wood
Department Photographic
Date 1982
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Dan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Additional Geographic Terms Kru and Peripheral Mande
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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