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Masks

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  • Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress
  • Detail from a Sri Lankan mask
  • M0014367: Yoruba head mask surmounted by a female figure and several child figures, Southern Nigeria
  • An Iron 'scolds bridle' mask used to publicaly humiliate
  • Sri Lankan mask
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    Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0014367: Yoruba head mask surmounted by a female figure and several child figures, Southern Nigeria

    | Date: December 1955 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/128/48
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Curved lines joined by straight lines and circles, surrounded by three figures

    Birch, Martin, 1935-1982 | Date: c.1966-1977 | Reference: 2852677i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Six masks with a skeleton throwing a corpse on to a fire below

    Bonwick, Gillian, active approximately 1966 | Date: 21 March 1966 | Reference: 2913940i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0005342: Canoes surrounding a dancing figure from the Duk-Duk secret society, Papua New Guinea.

    | Date: December 1937 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/43/72
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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