Head/mask with wide flat headband

Life Story

Provenance

Acquired by the Wellcome institute in 1931 from a sale in Paris of the ethnographic collections formerly belonging to surrealist writers Paul Eluard and Andre Breton.

Donated to the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia by the Wellcome Trust in 1981.

Not on display

Title/Description: Head/mask with wide flat headband

Object Type: Mask

Materials: Greenstone

Measurements: h. 88 x w. 70 x d. 23 mm

Inscription: '245' label on headband

Accession Number: 40094 (Wellcome)

Production Place: Mesoamerica, Mexico, The Americas

Credit Line: Donated by the Wellcome Trust, 1981

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