Mask

National Museum of Natural History

Object Details

Donor Name
Victor J. Evans
From card: "Wooden, horns projecting from top and a cloth cover suspended so as to envelope the wearer's back; tufted with feathers, human hair and bits of skin with hair attached. "Worn as a false face. 'Fetish devil God', captured in 1919 by a captain of the Liberian frontier force when the "Devil Front" was entered for the first time. Grebo War of 1919.""
Record Last Modified
30 Oct 2018
Specimen Count
1
Culture
Grebo
Accession Date
20 Mar 1931
Collection Date
1919
Accession Number
113605
USNM Number
E360979-0
Object Type
Mask
Place
Liberia (not certain), Africa (not certain)
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Anthropology
NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
Topic
Ethnology
Record ID
nmnhanthropology_8407866
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3df4cdbe8-1e81-4ca9-b906-2a18c897e116
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