Mask

Museum number:
5-13576
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050013576
Accession number:
Acc.3402
Description:
Mask; anthropomorphic; brown stained mottled wood, four perforations at edge; two gashes over the right eye; crack under the left side of chin; height 38.4 cm
Donor:
William Neufeld
Collection place:
Sierra Leone
Verbatim coll. place:
Liberia/Sierra Leone; Mende
Culture or time period:
Mende
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-13576, described as Mask; anthropomorphic; brown stained mottled wood, four perforations at edge; two gashes over the right eye; crack under the left side of chin; height 38.4 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-13576, described as Mask; anthropomorphic; brown stained mottled wood, four perforations at edge; two gashes over the right eye; crack under the left side of chin; height 38.4 cm

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