mask (dance & live theatre)

Full head mask covered in red beads, with features picked out in blue beads. There is cowrie shell decoration on the chin and forehead. The top of the mask is covered with feathers, which have been trimmed to the same length except one longer black feather on the side. There is a row of guinea fowl feathers along the front of the head.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
26.7.56/1
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 270 mm x 250 mm x 260 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
plant fibre; beads; feathers; cowrie shells
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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