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Yam Mask (Baba)
Yam Mask (Baba)

Yam Mask (Baba)

Maker Melanesian
Maker New Guinea
Maker Maprik area
Culture of Origin Abelam
Object number68.112
Credit LineNasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection
Dimensions9 5/8 x 7 3/4 in. (24.45 x 19.69 cm)
MediumRattan with pigment, paint, and cowrie shells
Photo: Susan Cole
House mask
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1469
Totemic mask
Totemic mask
Melanesian
ca. 19th - early 20th century
Object number: 70.122
Gable mask
Gable mask
Melanesian
Object number: 65.78
Image Not Available for Bede mask depicting a Peul woman
Bede mask depicting a Peul woman
Malian
Object number: 93.160
Image Not Available for Bede mask depicting Sagatara
Bede mask depicting Sagatara
Malian
Object number: 93.161
Mask with cowrie-shell decoration
Mask with cowrie-shell decoration
Dan
Object number: 72.68
Mosh'a Mboy Mask
Kuba
Object number: 2001.42
Mosh'a Mboy Mask
Kuba
Object number: 2001.43
Pwoom-Itok Mask
Kuba
Object number: 2001.47
Yet ornament, mask
Kuba
Object number: 2001.351
Photo: Paul Macapia
Mask (Ga Wree Wree)
Dan
1850 - 1980
Object number: 81.17.197.1
Mask (Mukyeem)
Congolese
Object number: 2001.44