Hip Pendant Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. VETTED BY WILLIAM FAGG AND PHILIP DARK FOR HMSG. FAGG QUESTIONED THE AGE OF THE PIECE DESPITE ITS "OLD STYLE" AND DARK DIDN'T THINK THIS WAS OLD. JH PURCHASED FROM GALERIE KAMER OF NEW YORK ON 12/19/61. HOLLOW OVAL MASK'S TOP EDGE HAS STANDING CYLINDRICAL PLUGS (OR CORKSCREW HAIR ?) CENTER HAS 3 CONNECTING LOOPS. HAS CONTOURED EYES AND NOSE W/ OVAL EYES OUTLINED. BETWEEN THE EYES IS A RAISED OVAL MARK. HAS ROUND EARS. EACH FLAT CHEEK HAS 4 RAISED ROWS OF SCARIFICATION MARKS. OPEN OVAL MOUTH HAS 2 PROTRUDING PLUGS ON EITHER SIDE AND BELOW MOUTH IS ANOTHER PROTRUDING RECTANGULAR PLUG (?) LOWER JAW OUTLINED W/ RAISED CHEVRON MARKS.
label: Notes
content: SI ARCHIVES ACC. 86-136, BOX 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Côte d'Ivoire (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Baule / Agni (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428199-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 7.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2.2 cm