showing 4 results matching culture:"Temne"

advanced
ovoid shaped with flat top; chain extending from top center with tassel made of many hanging chains; central top high relief design of flower surrounded by five-pointed stars; sides decorated with relief designs of regularly-spaced leaves extending off flat horizontal vines

Hat (fez), Date Unknown

Temne

G242

helmet mask; larger head at bottom with smiling face with teeth showing, long nose, full cheeks, almond-shaped eyes, small ears set high on head and forward toward face, with earlobes pierced and piercing at top of PR ear; lower head has smooth black hair; smaller head and upper torso on top of lower head, wearing red shirt with notched collar; top figure has short smooth black hair; almond-shaped eyes, wide nose, ears with piercings at top of each; blue pigments on hair of lower head around edges of top small torso and head; peach-colored skin

Mask, mid 20th century

Temne

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helmet mask; larger head at bottom with smiling face with teeth showing--gap between front teeth, long nose, full cheeks, almond-shaped eyes, small ears set high on head and forward toward face, with earlobes pierced; lower head has short black hair in a sort of cornrow/plaited style, delineated with incised zigzags, triangles and parallel lines; smaller head on top of lower head, with smiling face with teeth showing, almond-shaped eyes; high, forward-set ears with piercing in lobes and piercing at center back of PR ear; black hair of smaller head styled in three twisted ponytails--two on either side of head, one on back of head, with smooth parallel lines on hair on head; yellow and red fasteners at top of each ponytail; peach-colored skin

Mask, mid 20th century

Temne

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hatlike mask with 4 faces, 2 wearing headdresses with animal heads on long necks; 1 face totally lost due to insect damage

Bunde Mask, 20th century

Temne

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