Mask

29-12-169

From: Dahomey | Benin

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-12-169
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Yoruba
Provenience Dahomey | Benin
Date Made ca. 1900
Section African
Materials Wood | Pigment
Iconography Leopard
Description

Wooden mask colored brown (largely flaked off). Hair is black. The edge of the disk on which leopards stands is blue. Top of the disk is white. The two leopards are white with black spots.

Height 35.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. Laporte, 1929
Other Number 157 - Other Number

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