mask
- Museum number
- Af1954,23.873
- Description
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Register 1954
Carved wood face mask: articulated lower jaw into which are pegged eight sticks representing teeth, painted white, picked out in black. On the head is a three legged cooking pot.
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.50 centimetres
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Width: 12.30 centimetres
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Depth: 10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Af1954,23.865 to 878 were all registered as made by the Ogoni (often called Kana) in the Niger Delta.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1954,23.873
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 192646 (Wellcome Collection Number)