Object class: Masks (costume) / Object type: ethnography / Culture or time period: Akan cluster - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Door, accession number 5-8643, described as Door, carved wood with red and brown stains; animals, mask, symbols, standing human carved in high relief on one side; checkerboard design in low relief on reverse.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-16364, described as Ashanti Royal gold weight. cast brass mask incised scarification, small features and ears.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-13205, described as Mask; anthropomorphic face mask with red-painted face, elaborate carved hardress, scarification in relief; yellow lips, black highlights and hair dress; cowl-like base of mask not painted; fiber ties. (Purchased Abidjan 1965:48, $28.)

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-3224, described as Carv ed wooden mask in the form of an elephants head, including tusks and trunk.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-3205, described as Carved wooden face mask. Circular with horns, eyes and mouth outlined in red and white.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-16242, described as Goli or Guli mask; carved and painted black, white, pink. wood, 2 large horns curve upward toward each other; beak like mouth with teeth and prominent triangles. stylized eyes that are carved on each side of nose ridge which bridges over the center of the mask. nose and beak are decorated with alternate black and natural wood stripes. Conservation: Termite eaten, tip of one horn broken and repaired.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-3175, described as Carved wooden face mask with incised scarification marks on the forehead and around the mouth.