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Object Number 80-21-60/22428
Display Title Mask
Descriptions
Object Description Mask. Mask with the appearance of an elderly man constructed out of two pieces of wood with a mobile/kinetic chin and mouth, attached by silk cords. The facial hair is formed out of horse hair and the lips are painted red while the rest of the wood surface is stained/laquered dark brown. There are paper ties on the sides of the mask, possibly for wearing. See conservation for addition description.
Inventory Description Mask, carved wood, moveable jaw, hair eyebrows beard and mustache
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Date ca.1780
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Japan
Dimensions Overall: 19 x 14.6 x 7.5 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 2 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 22.428; 71
Provenance
Collector Prof. Edward Sylvester Morse (1879 - 1880)
Seller Prof. Edward Sylvester Morse (1880)

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