Object Number | 57-11-2 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Ngere |
Provenience | Ivory Coast |
Section | African |
Materials | Fiber | Metal | Wood | Paint |
Technique | Carved | Painted |
Description | Wooden mask painted red, white, blue, and black. Cut cloth "hair", animal skin "moustache". Painted wooden tusks and one (originally two) boar's tusks. Metal teeth against red cloth mouth. Fringe of cartridge shells forming "beard". Pendants from one ear: bras bell, brass tube, three wooden tusks. Strip of native cloth fastened below the chin ties at the back. |
Height | 26 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Webster Plass, 1957 |
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