Sculpture
37-22-285
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-285 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Mendi |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
Section | African |
Materials | Wood | Raphia |
Iconography | Human |
Description | Representation, in wood, of a person completely covered by a sleeved tunic of raphia fibres and trousers of the same material. The mask is a short cylinder, worn as if the wearer was bowing low showing the top of the cylinder; the front of the mask, pointing downward, shows a long curved beak-like projection, between two flat projections with front corners rounded off. Decorated in stripes, etc., of natural light color of wood, black, and rusty red. See Gawboi costume 37-22-286. |
Height | 34 cm |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | 70 - Collector Number |
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