Wooden face mask with human features. [ZM 22/04/2013]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden face mask with human features. [ZM 22/04/2013]
Long description: Carved wooden mask of an asymmetrical human face with holes for the eyes and mouth, plus two indents for nostrils. The surface of the wood is blackened with remnants of white painted dotted over the face and around the eyes and mouth. There is a hole about a third of the way down on each side of the mask. [ZM 22/04/2013]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Northern Nigeria
Cultural groups: Tiv
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Berkeley Galleries
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1967
Date collected: By 1967
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1967
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Width: max 235 mm, Height: max 255 mm, Depth: max 98 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1967.33.2
Research and responses: According to the Ethnologue Online, the Igbirra should now be known as Ebira. [CW 8/11/2000]

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