dance-mask
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.272
- Description
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Dance-mask; carved of wood; in the form of human face; holes carved above eyes and for nostrils; skin painted green, eyebrows and beard black (with hair incised), pupils black, irises blue, eyes white, red around eyes, on cheeks, nostrils and mouth; holes at centre forehead and at temples.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 29 centimetres
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Width: 17.50 centimetres
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Depth: 15 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Mask used in the Dance of the Moors.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- Objects collected during the 1970s by Chloë Sayer and Marcos Ortiz. They were exhibited in 1977-1978 at the Horniman Museum, and later acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1978,15.272