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Dance mask

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Catalogue: Dance mask with fish pattern. Entry in the historical main catalogue: Mask, black and white, Meresu pattern.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Mehinakú
Object type
Dance mask
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm
Depth: 47 cm
Width: 93 cm
Length: 62 cm
Height: 89 cm
Width: 36 cm
Depth: 20 cm
Weight: 2 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Bast , Piranha pine
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V B 2587

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Brazil
    who
    Mehinakú
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase (expedition) 1889
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Ethnology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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