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2024.21.9

Mask.

2024.21.9

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Collection type
Object
Description
Mask.
Long description
Narrow oval mask carved with exaggerated, protruding eye sockets and crescent-shaped slits for the eyes, slender nose, and a triangular mouth with teeth bared. The whole mask is painted with red, white, blue, and black pigment, particularly around the eyes which have been decorated with alternating white and blue semi-circles.
Geographical reference
Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Date / Period
Date made: 1901 - 2000, uncertain
Acquisition information
Donated: 28/11/2024
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions
Length: max 475 mm, Width: max 280 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2024.21.9 Other numbers: 101
Research and responses

Described by the donors as an Eket mask. Eket is one of the local government areas of Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria, thus this mask has been given the Geographical Provenance of Nigeria.

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