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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