Carved Wooden Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Jun 1922
name: label: Donor Name
content: Maj. George P. Hill
notes: label: Notes
content: On display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Objects of Wonder", 2017 - 2024. Exhibit label: Ceremonial mask, Efik Ibibio, Southeastern Nigeria, before 1922; Wood, paint. The Ekpo men's society performs masquerades at funerals and annual harvest festivals as a means for the ancestors to communicate with the living. This mask represents a character with gangosa, a tropical disease that destroys the tissue around the mouth and nose, and was designed to frighten spectators.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Nov 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: East, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ibibio
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 068518
label: USNM Number
content: E324556-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask