Ndoma mask | Mblo Portrait Mask (2)

Ndoma mask

Attribution: Museum-publishedProvenance: Museum accession

Attribution follows a published museum catalogue or peer-reviewed scholarship. Object is held in a public collection under a published accession number.

Mblo Portrait Mask (4), Igbo — front view
Front · Brooklyn Museum · CC BY 3.0 — via Wikimedia Commons
Mblo Portrait Mask (5)
Additional view · Unknown authorUnknown author · CC BY 3.0 — via Wikimedia Commons
Mblo Portrait Mask
Additional view · Unknown authorUnknown author · CC BY 3.0 — via Wikimedia Commons

Oval mask with serrated carved edge and elongated bird figure curving down from forehead. Crescent-shaped eyes pierced with slits. Rectangular beard. CONDITION: Notch in top of bird head, pigment on mouth, hair, and bird beak flaked away.

Catalogued by Brooklyn Museum as “Mblo Portrait Mask (4)”. Harvested from the museum’s open-access record; every field below is copied from that record and none of it has been inferred.

Record

People / cultureBaule
CountryCôte d'Ivoire
Common nameNdoma mask
Form categoryFace mask

Provenance

CollectionBrooklyn Museum
Accession number1989.51.15

Source

Brooklyn Museum, Mblo Portrait Mask (4), accession 1989.51.15. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileBrooklyn_Museum_1989.51.15_Mblo_Portrait_Mask_4.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABrooklyn_Museum_1989.51.15_Mblo_Portrait_Mask_%284%29.jpg

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