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Limba

Male ancestral mask

Limba, 1900

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Limba

Male ancestral mask

Limba, 1900

Physical Qualities Wood, oil, 17 1/8 × 10 3/8 × 8 7/8 in. (43.5 × 26.3 × 22.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert and Mary Cumming, Baltimore
Object Number 1994.181
Three triangular designs above forehead and truncated horns (?) on top.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.212, ill.

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