Wood,rafia head mask
- Museum number:
- 5-5991
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050005991
- Accession number:
- Acc.2263
- Description:
- Head mask; carved wood anthropomorphic head surmounted by carved wood snakes; brown raffia skirt around neck; h. ca. 60 cm.
- Donor:
- The Calvin K. and Doreen B. Townsend Donation and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Cameroon
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Cameroon; Bamun
- Culture or time period:
- Bamun
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- 1967
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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