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Form: > a) Laughing face, black patina with remnants of white and red painting. There is a fist-sized hole in the top of the head. Inside is a somewhat > b) fitted 'skull plate'

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Metscho
Object type
Header mask
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 34 x 28 x 22 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 21073 a,b

Provenance and sources

where
Cameroon [Land/Region]
North-west border with Bansso [Gebiet]
who
Metscho

who
Glauning, Hans - Collectors

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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