- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cloth hood-mask.
- Long description
- Textile mask made of lengths of differently patterned material stitched together with eye holes and a mouth hole. At the top of the mask is a tassel with a wooden rod inside and a red tassel at the end. [ZM 05/04/2013]
- Cultural groups
- Tiv
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1932
- Date collected
- By 1932
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1932
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Wood Plant, Process Woven, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Width 283 mm, Length: max 1495 mm including tassel, Length 792 mm excluding tassel
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.18.40
Search terms: Mask, Clothing Headgear, Ritual and Ceremonial, Religion, Death, Children and Childcare, Hood, Ceremonial Object
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