Antelope Mask

Loma people, Toma people, Liberia, African

20th century

  • Titles Antelope Mask (Descriptive)
  • Medium wood and shell
  • Dimensions 25 x 20 1/2 x 5 in. (63.5 x 52.1 x 12.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Levitt, 1986.565
  • Work Type mask
  • Classification Costume

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One of four staffs used to deliniate an area around a royal when he appears in public. Decorated with kneeling female figures with hands on breasts, alternated with knelling male drummers, at top birds and a python, below figures are quadrupeds, possibly goats, symbols of wealth.
Kneeling female figure and child
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