Mask
37-22-273
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-273 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | The mask is carved in high relief on a roughly oval plaque of wood, the outlines of the face following the shape of the plaque [or vice versa]. The nose is a simple rounded ridge proceeding from the flat face of the scarp-like forehead, the mouth a simple round prominence with a concave surface. The face is whitened. One of the properties of the Kawso Society. See 37-22-272, 274, 262. |
| Height | 28.5 cm |
| Width | 17.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 255 - Collector Number |
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