Mask
Object Number: | 37-22-275 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Sherbro |
Provenience: | Sierra Leone Sherbro Island Shengge |
Section: | African |
Materials: | Wood |
Height: | 25 cm |
Credit Line: | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number: | 312 - Collector Number |
Description
Kawpe. Wooden. In the general style of a Bondo head, with two conjoined lobes or crest on the top of the head. Face flat, reduced to simplest elements. "Medicine" marks on forehead and cheeks - crosses and vertical strokes. Four slightly indicated neck rings. Ngoloi. See 37-22-263. Cf. also 37-22-272, 283.
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