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Tiriki Mask
Joy Adamson
National Museums of Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
An illustration of a Tiriki boy wearing a mask after circumcision. This mask is only worn by initiates for a period of six months during which they are in seclusion.
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Details
- Title: Tiriki Mask
- Creator: Joy Adamson
- Location Created: Wombo, Kenya
- Provenance: Preserved at the National Museums of Kenya Archives
- Type: Painting
- Rights: National Museums of Kenya
- Medium: Watercolour on paper
- Art Form: Painting
- Depicted Person: Bukhaya Hamanga
- Depicted Topic: Initiation
- Subtitle: Snapshots of Kenyan Communities
- Community: Tiriki
- Collection: Joy Adamson's Collection
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