Mask Item Number: 3522/33 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Humanoid wooden mask with a narrow face that tapers at the chin. Mask has a pronounced brow and slits for eyes; white-grey pigment painted around eyes. Long thin nose above small protruding lips; linear motifs carved in relief across lower lip. Similar designs, with additional diamonds and triangles, carved in a vertical line from the forehead to the bridge of the nose. Sides of mask are flat, top and chin are rounded; interior is hollow. Mask has holes for eyes; holes drilled along sides and top of mask.
Deangle (dean gle) type mask; designed to be peaceful and to represent beauty.
The donor taught in a rural school in Tobli, eastern Liberia, from 1965 to 1967.