Mask

29-12-171

From: Gabon | Ogooue River

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-12-171
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Punu | Lumbo
Provenience Gabon | Ogooue River
Section African
Materials Wood | Pigment
Iconography Cicatrisation
Description

Like 29-12-170. This has small triangular forward extention of hair at top of forehead, and red stripe along forehead edge of ahir. Hole has been bored through from crown into concavity of mask. Ogowe type

Height 32.6 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. Laporte, 1929
Other Number 163 - Other Number

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