Mask

Object Number:

83-34-1

Current Location:

Africa Gallery

Culture:

Bobo

Provenience:

Upper Volta

Date Made:

1900-1983

Early Date:

1900

Late Date:

1983

Section:

African

Materials:

Wood
Fiber
Pigment

Description:

Plank dance mask of wood with twisted fiber strands around margin of face. Bird-face with duck-like beak and two facial appendages. Super-structure ends in ?bird face. Geometric incised designs with black, brown, and white pigments on front and back sides. Fair condition: some worm holes in and splitting of plank.

Credit Line:

Gift of Edith Drucker