Mask

97-18-25

From: Zaire

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 97-18-25
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Yaka
Provenience Zaire
Section African
Materials Wood | Pigment | Cloth | Raffia
Technique Carved | Painted
Description

Carved wood. Painted with blue, red and white pigment is a typical style with an upward curving nose, carved teeth, narrow eye slits set in oval shapes outlined on the upper edge with a red and blue dot design. Elaborate headdress of wood and fiber with pointed, telescoping shapes painted with a stripe and dot design. Raffia skirt attached to headdress and extending to bottom of the mask.

Length 85.5 cm
Width 43 cm
Credit Line Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hill II, 1997

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