White Painted Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1986
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. CARVED HOLLOW WOODEN MASK IS BROWN W/ THE FACE THICKLY PAINTED IN WHITE. FACE HAS BULGING FOREHEAD, CUT-OUT CRESCENTS FOR EYES, TRIANGULAR NOSE, OPEN PROTRUDING MOUTH (LIPS PAINTED RED) SCULPTED EARS W/ PIERCED EAR OPENINGS. ELABORATE CARVED HAIRSTYLE HAS TWO MOUNDS ON TOP W/ A SWATHE ON EITHER SIDE. HAIR PATTERN IS INCISED. HOLES ON EITHER SIDE OF MASK FOR FIBER CORDS. HOLE ON TOP HAS METAL WIRE. LABELS: "17" AND "S.310.77." CONDITION: BIG CRACK ON TOP, DUSTY.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ashira Bapunu (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428150-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 31 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 16 cm