helmet mask with yellow-skinned face, with wide nose and large eyes with red around bottom eyelids; three black vertical lines on each cheek; V and L-shaped repeated shapes for eyebrows; white circle surrounded by tiny blue vertical lines at center of forehead; green vertical plank on top of head with a seated puppet on top; puppet has red skin; puppet wears a long-sleeves shirt and pants of similarly patterned cloth--white with brown flowers and lines--and a blue neck kerchief; puppet has black short hair, blue dots for eyebrows and has a white spot surrounded by tiny yellow dots on forehead

Gelede mask with puppet, c. 2000

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Gift of John and Christine Clark Kitchener in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Minneapolis Institute of Artsexpand_more  2015.5

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Gelede mask with puppet
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2015.5
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helmet mask with yellow-skinned face, with wide nose and large eyes with red around bottom eyelids; three black vertical lines on each cheek; V and L-shaped repeated shapes for eyebrows; white circle surrounded by tiny blue vertical lines at center of forehead; green vertical plank on top of head with a seated puppet on top; puppet has red skin; puppet wears a long-sleeves shirt and pants of similarly patterned cloth--white with brown flowers and lines--and a blue neck kerchief; puppet has black short hair, blue dots for eyebrows and has a white spot surrounded by tiny yellow dots on forehead

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