Helmet Mask
Date:
19th/20th Century
Dimensions:
38 inches (96.52 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Governor and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams
Object number:
66.485
Wood Firespitter helmet mask with straight antelope horns striated at bottom end. Boar's tusks and ears(?) on fore- head. Hornbilled bird on dome holding animal (chameleon?) in beak. Wide open jaws of mask connected by six large teeth. Two warthog tusks at back of mouth, two on top of face at sides of long nose.
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