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Dan and Mano

Female mask with headdress

Dan/Mano, 1900

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Female mask with headdress

Dan/Mano, 1900

Physical Qualities Wood, fiber, cloth, metal, encrustation, kaolin?, (ex. braids): 10 1/4 × 7 5/16 × 5 1/8 in. (26 × 18.5 × 13 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of A. Harvey and Phyllis K. Schreter, Baltimore
Object Number 1991.388
Fiber plaited to look like hair, attached to cloth backing. Metal spike protruding from forehead, forehead encrusted with white.

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