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Mask3439/1

Carved and painted wood mask. The mask is long and thin, with a long nose that curves and connects with the mouth area. The eyes are inlaid cowrie shells within a painted black area. The jaw and mouth area are also inlaid with two rows of cowrie shells - small shells around the interior, and larger shells around the outer edge. The jaw is lined with dark brown plant fibre beard on a braided cord. At the top centre of the head is a hole with a short length of braided plant fibre tied looped through.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
cowrie shell, wood, plant fibre and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask3420/54

Mask with trunk-like projection extending forwards from top of the head. Mask built on a wood frame, lined with woven plant fibre. Heavily decorated with cowries and areas of beadwork on forehead and around side. Face has cowrie shell eyes outlined with beads, and a wooden nose and mouth. Bottom edged with plant fibre, which has been split into finer pieces below the face.

Culture
Kuba
Material
wood, cowrie shell, glass, plant fibre and earth
Made in
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bird Mask3420/39

Mask with a bird head and vertical rectangular superstructure. The bird has two large concentric circle eyes, a raised red ridge, and a long curved beak. Both the head and the beak are painted with black and white repeating triangle designs in various sizes. Long brown plant fibre hair is attached across the back of the face mask, and hangs down. The superstructure consists of two rectangular panels, attached with some openwork. The panels are surmounted by a large crescent with smaller diamond.

Culture
Mossi
Material
wood, paint and plant fibre
Made in
Burkina Faso
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Plank Mask3420/25

Plank mask with circular face and tall, vertical superstructure. The face has two large concentric circle eyes, concentric diamond nose, and a small tubular mouth. Long plant fibre hair is attached across the back of the face mask, and hangs down. There is a black downward-curving projection attached at the centre of the forehead. Diamond-shaped panels connect both ends of the long rectangular board. The board is painted with geometric and zoomorphic shapes in black or dark red on a white background. Surmounted by a crescent-shape.

Culture
Bwa
Material
wood, paint and plant fibre
Made in
Burkina Faso
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Guerisseur Mask3420/20

The mask has a two sunken rectangular spaces within a raised rectangular border, raised jagged-edged nose, rectangular cutout eyes, and pointed ears. The mask is painted with orange-brown and red-brown. Extending up from the head between the ears are two long, slightly curved and spiraled ears or horns. A loosely woven plant fibre net is attached to the back.

Culture
Dogon
Material
plant fibre, wood and paint
Made in
Mopti, Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Monkey Mask3420/15

Monkey mask carved of wood and painted. The mask has a sunken flat square face, with prominent brow ridge, thin pointed nose, pointed mouth with bright pink lips, small cutout triangular eyes, and pointed ears. The mask is painted with horizontal bands of solid bright pink, blue, yellow, and black. Seated monkey figure has thin curved torso with long arms that hold something in front of its face. The monkey has a pointed muzzle, with a band of bright pink painted across its eyes to its ears, and down its nose.

Culture
Dogon
Material
wood, pigment ? and paint
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask3420/23 a-c

Wood rectangular face mask (part a) with tall ladder-like superstructure with two breaks (parts b-c). The face mask has two sunken rectangular areas on either side of the nose, and two small cutout square eye holes. Inside, there is a wooden bite bar inserted through holes on sides. Ears extend along each side of the face, with small points extending up. Red plant fibre hair is attached to the back of the mask. Extending from the top of the head, between the ears, is a tall superstructure of panels alternating between various hourglass shapes, and lines, tapering in at the end with a sphere at the tip. The superstructure has split, almost in half, through the sixth panel (part b), and again through the eleventh panel (part c) near the top.

Culture
Dogon
Material
metal, wood, paint and plant fibre
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask3420/56

Bush cow mask carved of wood and painted. The face has a rectangular shape, with a split in the head which continues into two slightly curved horns extending up from the top of the head. The horns are painted with bands of red or black in alternating sections, and the face has two large concentric circle eyes, a large V-shaped design and a row of jagged teeth. Long yellow-brown fibre hair is attached to the back.

Culture
Bwa
Material
wood, paint and plant fibre
Made in
Burkina Faso
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bird Mask3420/38

Risian bird mask. Mask with a bird head and vertical rectangular superstructure. The bird has two large concentric circle eyes, a raised red ridge, and a long curved beak. Both the head and the beak are painted with black and white repeating triangle designs in various sizes. Long brown plant fibre hair is attached across the back of the face mask, and hangs down. Panel is surmounted by a large crescent with smaller diamond and triangle shapes.

Culture
Mossi
Material
wood, paint and plant fibre
Made in
Burkina Faso
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask3420/36

Mask with flat oval white face with a red line down the centre through a horizontal diamond with cutout eye holes. A vertical superstructure extends up from the face mask as well as a small horned animal. The panel has cutouts and has a small human at top, above four curved X's. Reverse painted solid black with white X's. Holes around face mask where fibre would have been attached.

Culture
Mossi
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Burkina Faso
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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