Mask
c. 300-c. 900
Artists
Description
Long narrow stylized scaphoid forehead; pupils of eyes drilled out; mouth open; tongue shows; nose delineated by incised lines of cheeks. Head-dress indicated; rear deeply hollowed, with six holes for tie strings.
Dimensions
21.7 × 14.3 × 14 cm (8 9/16 × 5 5/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
Provenance
[Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, January 1938, cat. N3737, sold;] to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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