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Life size wooden mask painted white with red lips, black eyebrows and +
Life size wooden mask painted white with red lips, black eyebrows and +
Object Number 46-78-70/2318
Display Title Life size wooden mask painted white with red lips, black eyebrows and +
Descriptions
Object Description Life size wooden mask painted white with red lips, black eyebrows and +
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, human face, pale pigment overall, red mouth, painted black eyes and eyebrows, gold and black curvilinear designs on forehead, small triangular gold glass at upper center of forehead, glass crackled, small fragment of gold glass in mouth, perforations and slits through wood at eyes, nose, mouth, small leather strap at mask interior near mouth , leather affixed with two metal nails
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Date 18th-19th Century
Culture
  • Javanese
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Indonesia / Java
Additional Geographic Terms Malay Archipelago
Materials Wood , Pigment , Leather , Metal , Glass
Dimensions Overall: 16.6 × 14.7 × 9.4 cm (6 9/16 × 5 13/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 46-78-70/2318
Provenance
Collector Mr. Ernest T. Jackson (01/01/1880-01/01/1900)
Donor Mr. Patrick T. Jackson (11/27/1946)

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