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Wooden mask painted like a clown, long beard
Wooden mask painted like a clown, long beard
Object Number 2018.10.24
Display Title Wooden mask painted like a clown, long beard
Descriptions
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, cut out at eyes and nose, painted clown face, white, orange, red, green, white hair? inserted at eyebrows and long beard
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yaqui
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Mexico
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall (Measurement of wooden mask): 6 × 12 × 19 cm (2 3/8 × 4 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2018.10.24
Credit Line Gift of Elaine Kotell Binder and Richard Binder

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