Head Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 1947
name: label: Donor Name
content: Library Of Congress
notes: label: Notes
content: Prior to exhibition in the Rotunda from 2000-2015, the mask had a fringed plant fiber collar/ruff sewn around the neck. With consultation of Mary Jo Arnoldi, this ruff was removed due to its fragile nature and unsuitability for exhibition on June 16, 1999. The original was placed in object storage. For the exhibit, a new ruff was donated by a colleague of Arnoldi, Mark Leo Felix, a Congo specialist and art dealer, in Brussels, Belgium (at that time a curator with the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium). According to Arnoldi, this new plant fiber ruff probably had a metal wire added after donation to attach it to the mask. The new ruff was removed from the mask by conservator Robin Ohern after the exhibition in July 2015 and will be stored with the mask and original ruff.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bushongo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 176312
label: USNM Number
content: E385718-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask