Helmet Mask
Fringe
37-22-267B
Location: On Display in the Africa Galleries
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-267B |
| Current Location | Africa Galleries - On Display |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni |
| Date Made | Early 20th century CE |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood | Fiber |
| Description | Min Bondo Le. 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. |
| Height | 43 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 147 - Collector Number |
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