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Description:
This slim, shallow wooden mask shows a white face, painted with white clay or kaolin, and has a fibrous beard attached to the base of the mask. Facial features show cowrie-shaped eyes and a long, sagittate nose, and no mouth. Two holes at either side of the eye-line were used as means of attachment.
Source: Helen Coleman
Relational references:
Hooper Steven. ‘Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection’ vol. 2. Yale University Press, 1997. Biebyuck Daniel, ‘Lega Culture’ University of California Press, 1973.| Object details | |
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| Type of object: | Mask |
| Type category: | Costume and jewellery |
| Material: | Unspecified wood |
| Width: | 79 mm |
| Height: | 310 mm |
| Depth: | 24 mm |
| Origin | |
| Style/Period: | Helen Coleman |
| Date range: | 1900-1999 CE |
| Discovery site: | Helen Coleman |
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| Creator | |
| Technique: | |
| Personal name: | - |
| Role: | - |
| Culture: | Lega |
| Record data | |
| Artworld id: | 10013 |
| Current accession number: | UEA 270 |
| Former accession number: | - |
| Credit line: | Mask (with a fibre beard attached). Africa, Zaire: Lega. 20th century. Wood, with traces of white decoration. h. 31.0 cm. Acquired 1961. UEA 270 |
| Recorded by: | PC |
| Record date: | Tue, 2nd Jul 2002 |
| Copyright: | Copyright© by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, 2002. All Rights reserved |