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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