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Female Kifwebe Mask
Unknownlate 19th or early 20th century
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York City, United States
The object is a female mask with projecting mouth, triangular nose, pierced eyes, overall concentric linear carving, and polychrome pigment.Condition is excellent. Two small holes made in back at a previous time for suspending wire through the masks widest point. Separate mount.
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Details
- Title: Female Kifwebe Mask
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: late 19th or early 20th century
- Location Created: Tanganyika Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Type: Masks
- Rights: Collection of Beatrice Riese
- External Link: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/169088/Female_Kifwebe_Mask
- Medium: Wood, pigment
- Dimensions: 12 x 7 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. (30.5 x 18.1 x 15.6 cm)
- Culture: Songye
- Collection: Arts of Africa
- Accession number: 2011.4.2
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