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title: Mask (Elu)
created: 2021-09-24T21:04:47+00:00
modified: 2025-04-02T18:00:58+00:00
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identifier: MCCM_1994-004-658
number: 1994.004.658
created: 1900/1999
description: Small delicately carved face masks with pert noses and childlike facial features representing male and female spirits (elu) appear in village masquerades among Ogoni peoples living between the Niger Delta and Cross Rivers of southern Nigeria. Many of these face masks are cut across the mouth allowing the wearer to articulate the jaw as the spirit speaks through him. The open mouth reveals narrow teeth, usually made of cane.
description: Photograph by Bruce M. White, 2011
creator: White, Bruce M.
subject: Ogoni (African people)
subject: Masks, Ogoni
spatial: Nigeria
spatial: Africa
temporal: Twentieth century
extent: 1809 x 13 x 12 cm
type: Artifact
medium: masks (costume)
relation: mask-elu
source: African Art
rights: Copyright declaration applies to digital photographs and not the mask depicted in them.
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rights holder: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
date copyrighted: 2011
owner: Emory University
mediator: Michael C. Carlos Museum
coverage: 1900

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