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View full screenHelmet mask of blackened wood, carved as a head with face and elaborate hairstyle, topped with a square pinnacle decoration and fringed with a few long strands of black raffia remaining at neck edge, Worn to represent the sowei spirit during masquerades performed by the female Sande Society: Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Mende people
A.1949.173
Unknown
Sierra Leone, Western Africa
Mende
Blackened wood; fringe of hair and fibre around lower orifice
Ohly, Ernest (Ernst) Jacob Felix, 1920 - 2008
Ohly, William Ferdinand Charles, 1883 - 1955
Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
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