masquerade-mask
- Museum number
- Af1950,12.1
- Description
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Register 1950:
Wooden carved mask with back-lying ridged head-dress, and tattered face, natural brown with black hair and marks, face originally painted white; used in [masquerade]
- Dimensions
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Height: 40.40 centimetres
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Width: 23.30 centimetres
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Depth: 20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1950:
Wooden carved mask with back-lying ridged head-dress, & tattered face, natural brown with black hair & marks, face originally painted white.
As used by the GELEDE society of the YORUBA, S. NIGERIA.
Illustrated by William Fagg (in Fagg & Pemberton, 'Yoruba sculpture of West Africa', 1982, p.18) who describes it as a 'very finely carved example' [of a Gelede mask from west Yorubaland].
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1950,12.1