Mask

Dan people, Liberia, African

20th century

  • Titles Mask (Descriptive)
  • Medium wood
  • Dimensions Overall: 1 1/2 x 4 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. (3.8 x 11.1 x 6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Benita S. Baird and Ronald E. Barab, 1987.116.7
  • Work Type mask
  • Classification Costume

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Container with Lid (Forowa), Asante people, Ghana, African, brass
Human head, fetish
Wooden tubular pipe with inlaid bands of silver filament, and inlaid brass wire scrollwork
Oval-shaped vessel tapers to narrow, flat base. Narrow curved neck has flaring rim; shoulder has five rows of raised bumps. Body of vessel has four rows of repeating incised garlands.