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MS-115-006: Wood Mask

 Item
Collection number: MS-115-006
Wood Mask (Front)
Wood Mask (Right profile)
Wood Mask (Left profile)
Wood Mask (Drawing, front)
Wood Mask (Drawing, profile)

Scope and Contents

Description: Mask with mane and tassels. Media: Polychrome wood, fiber, cowry shell, nut. Size: 15 1/4" x 10 5/8" x 5 1/4". Surface: Small white spots (reverse and front top), wear (throughout, especially at edges of face, eyes, and protruding areas), finish dull throughout, except right forehead area, scrapes throughout face and ears. Stability: Loss (top side, bottom up; entire right side, cheek to mane, approximately ten inches by four inches), crack ( forehead, right side, one and one sixteenth inches, right cheek, half of an inch), rope strands very frayed, one apparently missing from right cheek, sections of lips missing. Infestation: Cobwebs.

Dates

  • Acquired: 2011-08-26

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 34.00 artifact

Language

From the Collection: English

Private Title

ms-115-006

Repository Details

Part of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Valdosta State University Archives, Odum Library
1500 N. Patterson St.
Valdosta GA 30601 United States
7063728116
229-259-5055 (Fax)