Mask

83-34-1

From: Burkina Faso

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 83-34-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Bobo
Provenience Burkina Faso
Date Made 1900-1983
Section African
Materials Wood | Fiber | Pigment
Description

Plank dance mask of wood with twisted fiber strands around margin of face. Bird-face with duck-like beak and two facial appendages. Super-structure ends in ?bird face. Geometric incised designs with black, brown, and white pigments on front and back sides. Fair condition: some worm holes in and splitting of plank.

Length 134.8 cm
Width 21.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of Edith Drucker, 1983

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