mask
- Museum number
- Af1905,0609.10
- Description
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Nlongo initiation mask carved from wood in the form of a human face. Features painted in red, black and white pigment. Wooden headpiece has feather headdress attached by fibre net. Ruff made of vegetable fibre attached to base of mask.
- Production date
- 1900-1903 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 63 centimetres
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Width: 67 centimetres
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Depth: 70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Collection File Af1905,0609 (previously Eth.Doc.200):
Letter from Rev. Thomas Lewis, Baptist Missionary Society/BM, 24 April 1919 describing the Nlongo circumcision ritual in Angola.
Excerpt from article in The Juvenile Missionary Herald of the Baptisit Missionary Society, No.3, Vol. XL, March, 1903, p.34.
Typescript note on the 'Congo Dancing Masks'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair.
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Acquisition notes
- see comment on Af1905,0609.1
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1905,0609.10