Description (Physical description)
Yellowy/brown wooden mask with markings on the face painted in black. The mask has a very elaborate hair-style; on either side it has four symmetrical half banana shapes of hair pointing backwards. The tiny eye slits have pieces of reflective metal in them., (?pieces of mirror)
N.B. Pencil sketch of object on back of catalogue card.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Accession Register entry for this object does not mention Thomas Collection.
Event Date 29/1/2001
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria.
Event Date 7/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Source was previously recorded as: '?N.W. Thomas Collection; ?Thomas.N.W (collector); ?Bevan', but this is not supported by the Accession register entry or catalogue card, and there is no Thomas label attached to the object. This discrepancy was previously noted by T. Cotterill in 2001. It is not clear where this information came from, and the mask does not seem to be contemporary to the rest of the Thomas collection, therefore this information has been removed.
Event Date 3/9/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Wooden helmet mask with carved features emphasised with black pigment. The headdress or hair consists of eight backwards facing curved projections. There are pieces of mirror set into the eye cavities.

Event Date 23/9/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe