CultureCameroon peoples
Titles
- Palace Crest Mask of Buffalo
- Beaded Palace Crest Mask of Buffalo
Date1800–1899
PlaceCameroon, Africa
MediumBeads, textile, and wood
Dimensions26 3/8 × 10 3/4 × 5 in. (67 × 27.3 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment
Object number2004.1989
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
203M Sterling Galleries
On view
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Department
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1900–1950
Raffia cloth, glass beads, cowry shells, raffia, wood, and paint
73.89
1900–1950
Cotton cloth, flannel, glass beads, raffia cloth, indigo dye, and cane (?)
97.341
1875–1925
Ivory, iron, glass beads, brass bells, cotton cloth, wood, and cane
91.1551
1900–1940
Wood, silver, copper, iron, cotton cloth, glass beads, and paint
91.1452
1925–1950
Plant fiber, pangolin skin, snake skin, elephant hair, glass buttons, glass beads, and feathers
90.500
1100–1450 AD
Animal hide, dyed fibers, silver, spondylus shell beads, cinnabar
2001.1134.A,.B
c. 1580
Horn, faceted amber beads, rock crystal, reverse-painted and reverse-gilt
BF.2024.4