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Start Over Object name Mask Collection place Cote d'Ivoire Donor Alvin O. Pierce
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-14062, described as Mask; brown-stained wood; anthropomorphic; mouth originally fitted with 4 metal upper teeth, only far left one remains; forehead framed with fiber bundle wrapped in black cloth, sewn with bark strips and nailed to mask and rectangular brown plastic bag filled with herbs or seeds at center of forehead, sewn with thread at edges; height 28 cm
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-14063, described as Mask; brown and black stained wood; anthropomorphic; slit eyes; protruding mouth with pointed up teeth; raised scarification on forehead, cheeks, sides of mouth; elaborate hairstyle with incised strands of hair projecting down sides of face and incised semi-circular projection from top of head; left hair strand has been broken and repaired; height 40.5 cm
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-14046, described as Mask; blackened wood; anthropomorphic, oval face tapered to point at chin and top of head with slit eyes and open oval mouth; has 7 perforations along rear edge of each side; height 28 cm
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-14052, described as Mask; brown-stained wood with traces of red paint over all; flat, oval anthropomorphic face with slit eyes and mouth and symmetrical inward-curved horns at top and short rounded bears at chin, beard and horns bear parallel incisions, face incised around edge with further incised decoration on forehead; height 62 cm

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