Gelede Mask (2)

Gelede Mask (2)

Attribution: Museum-publishedProvenance: Museum accession

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Gelede Mask (2), Igbo — front view
Front · Brooklyn Museum · CC BY 3.0 — via Wikimedia Commons
Gelede Mask
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Gelede Mask

Catalogued by Brooklyn Museum as “Gelede Mask (2)”. 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 / cultureYoruba
CountryNigeria
RegionSouth West Nigeria
Common nameGelede Mask (2)
Form categoryHeaddress or crest worn atop the head
Subject depictedAncestor or named individual

Provenance

CollectionBrooklyn Museum
Accession number1991.228.1

Source

Brooklyn Museum, Gelede Mask (2), accession 1991.228.1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileBrooklyn_Museum_1991.228.1_Gelede_Mask_2.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABrooklyn_Museum_1991.228.1_Gelede_Mask_%282%29.jpg

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