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Simo Secret Society Helmet Mask

2013.04.0017

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Artifact Identification Simo Secret Society Helmet Mask   (2013.04.0017)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Ceremonial Artifacts
    3. :
  3. Religious Objects
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date N/A
Culture Mende
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 36.8 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 22.9 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 21.5 cm
Weight 1132 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Plant--Wood
Manufacturing Processes N/A

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Adams, Monni. Designs for Living. Cambridge, MA: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 1982. P. 64-65.

Geunneguez, Andre and Afo. Arte de la Cote d’Ivoire et de ses Voisins. Paris: L’Harmattan, n.d. P. 67.

The American Museum of Natural History (African Ethnographic Museum collection): http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/africa_public/africa_public.htm Note: search all cultures for “helmet mask”.

Boone, Sylvia Ardyn. Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art.
Yale University Press, 1986.

Mato, Daniel et al. Sande: Masks and Statues from Liberia and Sierra-Leone. Publisher: Galerie Balolu, University of California, 1990 (contains 151 pages of mostly photographs of different Sande masks).

National Museum of African Art http://africa.si.edu/collections/. Note: a search for Mende peoples provides a list of helmet masks .

Phillips, Ruth Bliss. Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Kieffer-Lopez Collection
Reproduction N/A

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