Mask

29-35-7

From: Ivory Coast

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-35-7
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Baule
Provenience Ivory Coast
Section African
Materials Wood
Description

Wooden mask colored black. Three horns all tips have broken off. No hair on head. There is a strip of beard. Brows and slits for eyes. Narrow nose and thin parted lips. Five tiny line"scars" on cheeks and between brows. Sets of three outside each eye.

Height 27.8 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Lena H. White, 1929

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