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Bundu Helmet Mask

Made By Unrecorded Mende maker, Sierra Leone or Liberia
Date1964
Mediumhardwood, painted/stained black, dyed raffia shoulder length mane
Dimensions32 × 20 × 21 in. (81.3 × 50.8 × 53.3 cm)
Classification(s)
  • AFRICAN
Credit LineGift of Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., Class of 1958
Object numberM.2019.30
DescriptionCarved mask with 2 layers of raffia attached at neck
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceThe Artist, Sierra Leone, (commissioned in 1964); to Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., 1964-2019; to present collection
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