Mask

Museum number:
5-15544
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015544
Accession number:
Acc.4556
Description:
Mask, helmet type. Ntene wood, hollow. Upthrust head of man covered with light green wash (?). Open mouth, protruding chin, aquiline nose, painted irises and eyebrows. Tear drop shaped trepanned area (not cut through skull) covering area from behind left ear to top of cranium. Colored dark blue. Height circa 20.5 cm, Width 17.9 cm, Length 25.0 cm. From East Africa, Tanzania, Bantu, Makonde, near Dar-es-Salaam.
Donor:
Daniel J. Crowley and Pearl Crowley
Collection place:
Dar es Saalam, Tanzania
Verbatim coll. place:
Tanzania; Bantu, Makonde
Culture or time period:
Bantu
Collector:
Daniel J. Crowley and Pearl Crowley
Collection date:
circa 1960
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-15544, described as Mask, helmet type. Ntene wood, hollow. Upthrust head of man covered with light green wash (?). Open mouth, protruding chin, aquiline nose, painted irises and eyebrows. Tear drop shaped trepanned area (not cut through skull) covering area from behind left ear to top of cranium. Colored dark blue. Height circa 20.5 cm, Width 17.9 cm, Length 25.0 cm. From East Africa, Tanzania, Bantu, Makonde, near Dar-es-Salaam.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-15544, described as Mask, helmet type. Ntene wood, hollow. Upthrust head of man covered with light green wash (?). Open mouth, protruding chin, aquiline nose, painted irises and eyebrows. Tear drop shaped trepanned area (not cut through skull) covering area from behind left ear to top of cranium. Colored dark blue. Height circa 20.5 cm, Width 17.9 cm, Length 25.0 cm. From East Africa, Tanzania, Bantu, Makonde, near Dar-es-Salaam.

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