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
