Urhobo Mask

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.

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

Mask

Catalogued by Brooklyn Museum as “Mask”. 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 / cultureUrhobo
CountryNigeria
Common nameMask
Form categoryFace mask
Subject depictedAncestor or named individual

Provenance

CollectionBrooklyn Museum
Accession number1992.138.1

Source

Brooklyn Museum, Mask, accession 1992.138.1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileBrooklyn_Museum_1992.138.1_Mask.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABrooklyn_Museum_1992.138.1_Mask.jpg

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