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Men's Initiation Helmet Mask with Costume

Arts of Africa

CULTURE Luena
MEDIUM Wood, vegetable fiber
  • Place Made: Angola
    • DATES 20th century
    DIMENSIONS a) Helmet Mask (with attached fiber): 14 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 10 in. (36.8 x 21 x 25.4 cm) b) Body Costume : 55 x 14 in. (139.7 x 35.6 cm)
    COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
    ACCESSION NUMBER 2004.108.4a-b
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Josephine Levitt
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
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