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Description: | Wooden mask: local name “satimbe” . The lower section is a wooden rectangular base with two eye holes. It is decorated with pink green and yellow paint on a white base. It has a mouth but no hole in this area. On top of the base is a black wooden figure of a woman who is wearing a green fibre skirt and wrist bands. She also has a white beaded necklace. She has red lips and cowry shells around her hair line. She has fibrous hair that also forms a mohicancrest. At the top of the mohican crest there are multicoloured beads linked together with a piece of string. She also has a nose ring, lip ring, and lots of ear rings. There are strings attached to the base of the mask that form a netting that enables the mask to be worn. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | beads (necklaces) wood metal Dogon masks string (fiber product) paint fiber | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-117983 |
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