Mask of human face wearing a headdress decorated with various animals. [ZM 30/04/2013]

Collection type: Object
Description: Mask of human face wearing a headdress decorated with various animals. [ZM 30/04/2013]
Long description: Mask of cast brass, normal size, representing a smiling human face with triangular gap in the upper row of teeth and two-winged beard, with an elaborate animal composition, cast in the round, as head ornament viz the head of a bull as central piece, flanked by two crouching leopards having their teeth in the bull's neck, while the face itself is flanked by two dogs standing with their hind feet on the upper edges of the beard and leaning with their fore feet on the leopards' tails.
Geographical reference: Cameroon
Africa > Central Africa > Cameroon; Province du Nord-Ouest Bamenda
Person: Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal, Process Cast
Dimensions: Depth: max 160 mm, Width: max 345 mm, Length: max 354 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.432 Other numbers: 389

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