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MaskK2.256

Cylindrical mask made of a bamboo and wood frame. Decorated with leopard skin and red and black checkerboard designs. Four elongated flaps attached to the bottom edge.

Culture
Mende
Material
bamboo grass, wood, fibre and leopard skin
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskK2.224

Mask depicting a stylized humanoid face with a heavy and rounded brow, a straight, wide nose, protruding roughly crescent-shaped eyes, an open mouth with three protruding teeth on the bottom, a small protruding chin, and stylized ears. There are holes pierced through the wood along the bottom edge all the way around the mask, and two vertical elongated rectangular eye holes to the sides of the nose. The cheeks are each marked with three vertical incised lines representing tribal markings.

Culture
Mende
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskK2.246

Mask composed of a dome surmounted by a humanoid figure's head on a series of eight stacked and slightly squashed spheres. Six square stylized faces are carved into the sides of the dome around the helmet and surrounded by geometric motifs. Stained black overall.

Culture
Mende
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureK2.209

Cock on egg-like base. The bird has its head bent so that the beak is facing downward. The plump body is decorated with an abstract cross-hatching-lattice-like pattern. There is only one wing, the right wing which extends upward as does the tapering curved tail. Similarly there is only one foot, the right foot with four claws on the the egg-like base. There is only one wing and one foot as the object is flat on the back side. The egg-like base has a curved zig zag design surrounding impressed circles at the centre.

Culture
Mende: Temne
Material
wood
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureK2.24

A stone sculpture of two bodies back to back. The smaller body consists of a large face carved with eyes, a nose with nostrils, and an open mouth with five teeth. The larger body consists of a big face carved with eyes, a nose with nostrils, a closed mouth, high cheek bones, short crouching legs, and arms that extend around backward to embrace the smaller body behind it.

Culture
Mende
Material
stone
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Helmet Mask919/1

Large, round, wooden helmet mask. Dark wood with slits carved for the eyes, a flat stubby nose and mouth, with a pair of horizontal lines carved on each cheek, and two rounded ears. It is carved with a large hair headdress with two rounded points, one at either side. There is a vertical row of upward pointing arrow lines in between vertical lines in the middle front of the hair. The sides have a vertical line of downward pointing arrow lines outlined with protruding pyramid-like shapes. The middle of the back also has a vertical row of carved out pyramid shapes. The hair has grooves carved out in between the designed vertical rows.

Culture
Mende
Material
wood
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Helmet Mask1373/13

Dark-brown, round, wooden mask. Cylindrical-shaped female head with small centralized face. Face has heavy eyebrows, slit eyes, and a small incised mouth. Nose is straight and flares out slightly at bottom. From the chin downwards, there are five rings, with the bottom ring perforated by twenty holes. Hair is shown as parted in the middle by a protruding centre braid-like feature and two small braids are found on either side of the head behind the ears. A head band between the braided hair and the forehead is decorated with incised geometric designs. At the back of the head, there are two wider bands.

Culture
Mende
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClothAf506

Rectangular cloth consisting of eleven narrow strips 12 cm wide and sewn selvedge to selvedge. Stripes run the length of each strip in the same pattern. Starting at one side is a light brown-white selvedge; narrow white stripe; broad light brown-white band; narrow white; broad dark brown; narrow white; broad brown; narrow white; broad dark brown; narrow white and broad light brown-white selvedge. Creased along width at each end. Unwoven fringe at both ends is 1 cm wide. Small yellow stains overall.

Culture
Mende: Sherbo
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Sierra Leone ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClothAf505

Rectangular cloth of twelve narrow strips sewn together. Each strip has a band of parallel black stripes and three parallel stitch width lines of brown above. Seams are above the brown stripes.

Culture
Mende: Sherbo
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Sierra Leone ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureK2.430

A Nomoli sculpture of a standing woman with a mortar and pestle. Her face is an oblong oval extending outward with carved facial features. Her back curves concavely, accentuating her rounded shoulders from which her arms extend outward to hold a pestle in an inverted conical mortar in front of her. Rough surface.

Culture
Mende ?
Material
stone
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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