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Cast of Mask
Cast of Mask
Datec. 1945-1990
MediumPlaster cast (hydrocal plaster?) with paint
DimensionsOverall: 14 3/4 × 9 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (37.5 × 24.1 × 13.3 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from the Hamilton College Anthropology Department
Object numberS2023.2.14
On view
DescriptionCast of a Basonge mask from the Kasai District of (formerly) Zaire, presently the Democratic Republic of Congo. Original object is made of wood with pigment and in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), #AF5115.
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Inscribed "048" carved into interior (this is the cast number from the Penn Museum Casting Program)
Photo by John Bentham.
Effigy pipes
Unknown artist
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Medium: Cast plaster with pigment
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Cast of Amulet with a Lamashtu demon
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Unknown artist
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Medium: Plaster
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Photograph by John Bentham
Untitled (Poured Black and White Curtain)
Robert Melee
Date: 2005
Medium: Enamel paint, canvas, and plaster on wood
Object number: 2012.3.15
Stuck
Stuck
Robert Melee
Date: 2006
Medium: Plaster, enamel, canvas on wood, and fiberglass
Object number: 2012.3.16
Photo by John Bentham.
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George Grey Barnard
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Medium: Plaster
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© Roberto Lugo courtesy of Wexler Gallery. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum o…
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Roberto Lugo
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Medium: Glazed ceramic and enamel paint
Object number: 2021.1a-b
Photograph by John Bentham.
Jar
Date: c. 1900
Medium: Terracotta with paint
Object number: 1984.519
Photograph by John Bentham.
Headdress frontlet
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Medium: Wood with paint and abalone
Object number: 1984.470
Photograph by John Bentham.
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Medium: Wood with paint
Object number: 1984.471
Photograph by John Bentham.
Katsina figure
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Medium: Wood with paint
Object number: 1984.527
Photograph by Dave Revette.
Funerary urn
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Copy of "Eros with Dolphin"
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Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
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Medium: Cast bronze
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