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Mask with angular form; downcast eyes; pigment and encrustation
Mask
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Mask

Maker Eket Artist
Dateundated
Place of originNigeria, Africa
MediumWood with pigment
Dimensions6 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 12.1 x 10.8 cm)
ClassificationsClothing and accessories
Credit LineGift of Rod McGalliard
Object number1995.28.48
Collections
Visual DescriptionMask with angular form; downcast eyes; pigment and encrustation
Bulky helmet mask with carved teeth, long curving horns, bulbous eyes, and decorated with red and black pigments and encrustation.
Helmet Mask (egungun)
Yoruba Artist
undated
Dan style; inset teeth; white metal eyes; resin in the mouth; pigment; darkened surface; encrustation
Mask
Dan Artist
20th century
Mask with angular eyes; small mouth; tall forehead; double coiffure crest; red, black and white pigment.
Mask
Bini Artist
undated
With small beard, scarifications, large bulbous eyes, coiffure with crown projection, pigments and encrustation
Headpiece (egungun)
Yoruba Artist
undated
Oval-shaped wooden mask with inset metal teeth, central forehead ridge, and tan pigment around eyes.
Face Mask
Dan Artist
undated
Oval-shaped wooden mask with central forehead ridge, tan pigment around eyes, and an iron chin projection.
Face Mask
Dan Artist
undated
Lega mask with vestiges of white pigment and holes at chin and next to eyes.
Miniature mask
Lega Artist
undated
Human face mask with large arched superstructure of rattan, thick, fiber brush on top, with light pigment on side filling swirl motif; face has operculum shell eyes, with hook nose, mouth has lips that are parted and flattened to form perpendicular plane to face. Face is painted with finely lined motifs, varied pigments against light ground.
Mask for Malangan (tatanua)
Papua New Guinea
late 19th - early 20th century
Wood mask with heavy black encrustation; the mask is worn on top of the head; composite of human features (elliptical eyes, nose with large flared nostrils and small mouth) with turtle, and serpent. Three lobes on top of the mask with incised grid-like patterns, suggesting scales or bird feathers. There are abstracted faces on either side of the cheeks.
Water Spirit Headdress (Pipligbo)
Kalabari Artist
20th century
Helmet mask depicting a composite boar and bird, made of wood and rattan, lined with cloth. The face has intricate openwork carving and is painted with fine lines in red, and black pigments over a white ground. A ruff of coconut fibers encircling back of head and fringe on chin. Snout of warthog has a bird with long bill, which is broken and glued together. Eyes of warthog and bird are made of snail shells (opercula). Trade cloth liner is made of two pieces of different floral patterns.
Boar Mask
Papua New Guinea
early-mid 20th century
Mask with animal form, with open mouth, pointed ears and short hons, and pigments.
Ogoni Wood Mask (Karikpo)
Ogoni Artist
undated
A carved dark wooden mask with a vertical forehead ridge and a horizontal white stripe across slit eyes. It has an open, toothed mouth and is framed by a woven fabric band adorned with cowrie shells and colorful beads.
Face Mask (deangle)
Dan Artist
20th century

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