Mask

Object Number:

37-22-267

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Sherbro

Provenience:

Sierra Leone
Sherbro Island

Section:

African

Materials:

Wood
Fiber

Description:

Wooden. The face is quadrangular, strongly prognathous, the eyes markedly oblique. Near the top of the coiffure are carved two horns [goat's or antelope's]; between them a bird with an aquiline beak perched on its nest [?]. Four "neck rings", the upper two interrupted in front by the lower part of the face.

Credit Line:

Museum Expedition to Sierra Leone, 1936-1937; Henry Usher Hall

Other Number:

147, 4944-4946

Other Number