Horned 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 WOODEN MASK MADE TO FIT OVER WEARER'S HEAD (?) ROUND HEAD HAS SHORT, ROUND NECK W/ OPENING BELOW. CIRCUMFERENCE OF NECK PIERCED W/ 2 ROWS OF HOLES. BACK EDGE OF BASE HAS A METAL LOOP. FACE HAS LONG PROTRUDING SNOUT. FEATURES INCLUDE INCISED CURVED BROWS, SCULPTED EYES, LONG WIDE NOSE, AND LONG OPEN JAWS REVEALING NOTCHED TEETH. BACK OF MOUTH HAS OPENING. HAS SHORT POINTED EARS PLACED FLAT AGAINST HEAD. LONG, POINTED HORNS CURVED BACK. MASK SURFACE COVERED W/ BITS OF EGG SHELL (?) EARS AND SNOUT COVERED W/ TRACES OF RED PAINT. CONDITION: FRONT BOTTOM TOOTH CHIPPED OFF.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Côte d'Ivoire (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Senufo (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428220-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 84 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 30.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 26 cm