Mask

68-2-7

From: Ivory Coast

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 68-2-7
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Ngere
Provenience Ivory Coast
Section African
Materials Wood | Brass | Pigment
Technique Carved | Painted
Description

Wooden mask painted various colors. Protruding forehead much like a visor, bulging eye slits, rectrangular nose with brass tacks all along the bottom, feathered moustache, solid white metal upper lip. Mouth is open with silver metal teeth and a red tongue, lower lip is also metal but left unpainted. Brass tacks all over chin. The cheeks have cylinders protruding as rouge marks except painted white, with a hole in the center.

Height 18 cm
Length 31 cm
Width 23 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mr. Baba Kaban, 1968

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