mask (dance & live theatre)

Mask. Demonic face with a high ridge as the nose, and three globular protuberances, each smaller than the preceding one, forming the mouth. It is made in a wrapped coiled technique, and is covered on the outside with some form of gum or mastic and painted in geometric designs in coloured pigments. The local name for it is 'baba-tagwa'.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
22.3.62/7
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 355 mm x 280 mm x 200 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
basketry; cane; paint; pigment; resin; gum
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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