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Description: | Several superficial chips and scratches on surface. CULT Yoruba Western Nigeria Africa This mask has been carved of wood and painted with white, red and blue pigment. It has an almost spherical head, with large protruding open jaws holding two lower and two upper teeth. The head has large protruding pierced ears, whitened eyeballs and a long, sharply bridged nose. The upper part has been decorated with a carved zigzag pattern picked out in blue paint, and the lower part with nineteen holes around the base.
The mask would have been used in ceremonial performances of the Yoruba people of Western Nigeria. It is thought to represent a baboon, or possibly gorilla, and would have been worn at such events as the Gelede masquerade.
NFA assisted purchase | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | HEADGEAR : MASK : NFA : ARTHIST : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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