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
Donor:
Alvin O. Pierce
Collection place:
Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
W. Africa; Ivory Coast; Dan
Culture or time period:
Dan
Collector:
Alvin O. Pierce
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama