Helmet mask
- Museum number:
- 5-5834
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050005834
- Alternate number:
- 3 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2171
- Description:
- helmet mask of West African gum wood blackened with shoe polish; anthromorphic with elaborate headdress and horns; height 42 cm
- Donor:
- Warren L. d'Azevedo
- Collection place:
- Liberia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Liberia; Vaitown; Vai or Liberia; Kle; Mende-Gola
- Culture or time period:
- Mende-Gola
- Collector:
- Warren L. d'Azevedo
- Collection date:
- 1956-1957
- 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
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Context of use:
- worn as headdress by female member of Sande secret society.
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 42 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1976-1977 #45: Presidio Army Museum (February 11, 1977–February 25, 1977) and S2009-2010 #7: SFO Museum (February 1, 2010–January 20, 2011)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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