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Salampasu and Sala Mpasu

Mask for the Ibuku Society (Mukinka)

Sala Mpasu, 1933

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Mask for the Ibuku Society (Mukinka)

Sala Mpasu, 1933

Physical Qualities Inscribed in plate: lower left "Geo. Cruikshank"; lower center "", "", "FISHER, SON & Co. LONDON & PARIS, 1845"Inscribed in plate: lower left "Geo. Cruikshank"; lower center "", "", "FISHER, SON & Co. LONDON & PARIS, 1845"Inscribed in plate: lower left "Geo. Cruikshank"; lower center "", "", "FISHER, SON & Co. LONDON & PARIS, 1845"Inscribed in plate: lower left "Geo. Cruikshank"; lower center "", "", "FISHER, SON & Co. LONDON & PARIS, 1845"Wood, copper, reed, grass, 23 1/4 × 11 × 11 in. (59 × 28 × 28 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Gilbert and Jean Jackson, Potomac, Maryland
Object Number 1993.596
With copper plating; balls of woven reed on top of the head and one hanging from a fiber beard

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