Akujo mask. Brown coloured mask with high upraised eyebrows outlined with black diagonal lines and three curvy horizontal lines carved for furrows at the wrinkled brow. The slightly triangular inset eyes bulge out at an angle as the high cheek bone angles to a downward bulge. The open cut out mouth has upper teeth. The moustache and goatee are painted with curved black lines. There is a grouped clump of curly black hair coming down from each upper corner of the mask from a set of holes. The beard is also done in a similar fashion to the hair. The pupils of the eyes and the nostrils are also cut out.

Flat unglazed base showing coarse grey-brown body; compressed barrel form rounding into short neck with a straight galleried lip. Two irregular grooves 2 cm. above the base give the impression of a foot. Covered in glossy opaque red-brown glaze, which displays fine iron specks, falling just short of the base, with one vertical reserved panel in opaque matte yellow-white slip. Some random grit incorporated in the glossy glaze, particularly near the base; minor flaws and scrapes on either side of the reserved panel.

Form swells gradually with corrugations indicating inadequately smoothed coils, from a flat round unglazed base without foot ring, to rounded shoulder; short neck with flaring rounded lip, wide mouth; red-brown ware. Thick green ash glaze covers jar evenly nearly to base; areas of darker splotches; spots of red-brown matte paint which may be remnants of characters; glossy crackled glaze, pitted and gritty, seriously degraded at junctions of underlying coils in shoulder area as well as in main body area; large patches of light ochre yellow dripping from shoulder area to just short of base.