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human head

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

Provenance and sources

Production
where
Cameroon
North-west border with Bansso
who
Metscho
Collecting
who
Glauning, Hans - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa

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