- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Face mask of papier mache, painted yellow and orange with brown spots. Upper part human, with moulded eyebrows painted orange and gold, death's head at top. Lower part a large hooked beak wide open, pierced, with long pointed tongue and four canine teeth.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930-1939
- Date collected
- 1930s
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1967
- Materials and processes
- Material Papier-Mâché Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Material Textile, Process Painted, Process Moulded
- Dimensions
- Length 322 mm, Width 197 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1967.25.10
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