Wooden mask
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- Title:
- Wooden mask
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- Wooden initation doctor's mask with beard; ears, eyes, nose, and mouth all have holes; eyebrows carved down to the mouth in a series of reverse S's creating cheek bones; touched the nose is a carved vertical band; ears protude inward to eyes; faded white dots over entire face.
- Collection Title:
- Joseph A. Towles Artifact Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
- Media Type:
- Objects
- Topical Subject:
- Initiation rites--Congo (Democratic Republic), Masks--Africa, Central, Mbo (Congolese (Democratic Republic) people), Masks--Africa, Sub-Saharan, and Traditional medicine--Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Geographic Subject:
- Africa, Africa, Sub-Saharan, Africa, Central, Congo (Democratic Republic), and Ituri Forest (Congo)
- Shelving Locator:
- 1989.001.132e
- Date Digital:
- 2009-08
- Digitization Specifications:
- 300 dpi; Nikon D80 camera; archival images in .tif and .nef formats.
- Internet Media Type:
- image/jpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Digital image copyright 2009, The College of Charleston Libraries. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.
- Admin ID:
- 30439
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