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Mask (front and back view)
Mask (front and back view)
Object Number 2004.24.30241A
Display Title Mask (front and back view)
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Mask and Headdress
Subject
  • Wood
  • Mask
Department Photographic
Date 1982
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Dan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia / <State> / Kwida / Towai Town
Additional Geographic Terms Kru and Peripheral Mande; Kwida Section
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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Mask (front and back view).
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