The handling of the eyes, ears, mouth, and coiffure are…virtually identical in treatment with two other masks almost certainly by the same carver in the Smithsonian Institution and in the British Museum. No collection data is available for either except that they were both apparently already in Britain and the US before 1900.
Medium
15.5 in/39.4 cm
Subject
Mende
Provenance
Unknown
Spatial Coverage
Liberia
Date Created
18th Century
Medium
Wood, raffia
Is Referenced By
William Siegmann, Rock of the Ancestors (Suacoco: Cuttington University College, 1977), 10.
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