dance-mask
- Museum number
- Am1956,08.151.b-c
- Description
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Register 1956:
Pair of wooden horns for a child's "water monster" dance-mask (see Am1956,08.151a), decorated with deer hooves and red feathers.
- Curator's comments
- Register 1956:
Composite "water monster" dance mask [Am1956,08.151a] for a child, of plaited palm leaf with two wooden horns decorated with deer hooves & red feathers.
50-153 [Am1956,08.50-56]: From KRAHO Indians of Central Brazil (N. Goiás, N. and E. of Rio Manuel Alves Pequeño). Linguistic family: Gê.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1956,08.151.b-c