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Object Number 62-48-50/10587
Display Title Boy's initiation mask, painted wood with fibre skirt - original color
Descriptions
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, human facial features with broad hooked nose, painted, cloth
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bayaka
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Congo
Additional Geographic Terms Africa, central: Republic of Congo; Belgian Congo
Dimensions Overall: 60 x 64 x 31 cm (23 5/8 x 25 3/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 62-48-50/10587
Provenance
Collector Mr. Eliot Elisofon (1962)

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