2-Faced Polychromed 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, PAINTED WOODEN MASK HAS A FACE ON EACH SIDE. BOTH FACES SHARE AN UPRIGHT FLAT CREST ON TOP OF HEAD. CREST IS STRAIGHT ON ONE SIDE, CURVED ON OTHER. EACH FACE HAS HIGH RELIEF OUTLINE IN DARK BROWN. RAISED DARK-BROWN LINE BISECTS FOREHEAD & BECOMES THE NOSE. HAS CURVED BROWS, PROTRUDING EYES W/ OPENING SLITS BENEATH. BELOW NOSE IS TIED A RAFFIA BEARD. FACE W/ CURVED SIDE OF CREST HAS LEFT SIDE OF FOREHEAD & RIGHT LOWER SIDE COVERED W/ THICK WHITE PAINT. RIGHT SIDE OF FOREHEAD IS UNPAINTED. LEFT SIDE COVERED W/ RED PAINT. OTHER FACE HAS REVERSE COLOR SCHEME EXCEPT THAT LEFT SIDE OF FOREHEAD PAINTED RED. ONE SIDE OF CREST & BOTH SIDES OF HEAD COVERED W/ THICK WHITE PAINT. ALONG CURVED SIDE OF CREST IS ROW OF PIERCED HOLES W/ TWINE STRUNG THROUGH. CONDITON: LONG SPLIT ALONG ONE SIDE OF HEAD.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Democratic Republic of the Congo (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: E428152-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 100.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 40.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: ca 30 cm