mask
- Museum number
- Af1905,0609.7
- Description
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Nlongo initiation mask carved from wood in the form of a human face. Features painted in white, red, blue and black pigment. Wooden headpiece has cap attached, made of raffia, painted with black pigment and stuffed with vegetable fibre. Small palits of raffia fibre attached to back of mask., Ruff made of vegetable fibre attached to base of mask.
- Production date
- 1900-1903 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 53 centimetres
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Width: 32 centimetres
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Depth: 31 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
- Af1905,0609.7