Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Dec 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 1990 to 1999
name: label: Collector
content: Allen Davis
label: Donor Name
content: Allen Davis
notes: label: Notes
content: Wooden mask of a human face with 4 tapered pieces of carved wood attached with nails at the crown. The upper portion of the face is decorated with cross-hatching. Red pigment has been applied to eyelids and along the mouth, and green pigment from the nosebridge up the forehead. The entire face appears to have been covered with some sort of resin. Holes drilled around the edges of the mask.
label: Notes
content: Notes from collector, Allen Davis: Purchased by Davis from Affrica Gallery (Mona Gavigan) in DC in 1990s. Possibly Ibo from Nigeria.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ibo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2082637
label: USNM Number
content: E435349-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 26.5 cm
label: Width
content: 19.5 cm
label: Height
content: 12 cm