Blue cloth headdress with large ears
- Made:
- 1890-1920
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LicenseBeaded elephant mask with large circular ears
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Beaded elephant mask with large circular ears, padded cloth eyes, ears and nose, covered in fine beadwork, long flaps for front and back of body attached, worn by members of the Kuosi at funerary and other celebrations Cameroon's, 1890-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657329
- Materials:
- cloth and beads, glass
- Measurements:
-
overall: length 1100 mm
mask: length 260 mm
mask: diameter 250 mm
mask, with ears: width 550 mm
flaps: width 200 mm
- type:
- mask
- credit:
- Christol, T.
