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Description: | Mask, carved wood; made to fit over the head, helmet-wise; the lower rim, in front, is pierced to hold a fringe of grass or hair. Above the rim, in front is a small face with cicatrisation marks (the eye slits are complete perforations). The upper part is a domed conventionalised hair dressing with two projecting knobs at the top and two on each side (the side ones are plugs which may be withdrawn). African, Mendi, Sierra Leone.
Accession number: NCM 1959-73 | Subjects: | costume (men's) | Temporal: | 1800-1900? | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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