Mask

29-35-22

From: Cameroon

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 29-35-22
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Bafut
Provenience Cameroon
Section African
Materials Wood
Technique Incised
Description

Wood. Blackened, except hair (arranged transversely in two lobes or pads), eyebrows, outline of eyes, chevron representing interior of ear, nostrils, mouth (open showing teeth), vertical incisions representing hairs of beard. Broad, flat face. Frontal with no holes for attachment or vision.

Height 34.7 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Lena H. White, 1929
Other Number 73684 - Other Number

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