Gift of Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith and Mr. L. Hawley Hoffman.

Gift of Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith and Mr. L. Hawley Hoffman.

Gift of Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith and Mr. L. Hawley Hoffman.

Gift of Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith and Mr. L. Hawley Hoffman.

Gift of Miss Sally Hart.

Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund.

Mask made of carved wood, animal skin and cloth. The face is painted dark red, and displays an open mouth, small nose, eye holes bored through the wood, and small rounded ears to the sides. Small tufts of hair sit under the nose for a mustache. Feathers are attached to the top of the head, mimicking hair, with hide on the sides. A thick thatch of matted grass is attached to a dark brown flap of cotton that covers the wearer’s head at back.

Mask made of carved wood, animal skin and cloth. The mask is painted black, and displays an open mouth with white paper behind the lips, blue pen used to draw teeth. Above a small protruding nose are bored eye holes also with inserted white paper, torn to indicate a pupil. Large ears are carved at sides. A series of wrinkles are carved into the forehead and along the cheeks. Pieces of hide with long strands of light brown hair are glued to the upper lip and chin for a mustache and beard, as well as around they eyes and to the top of the head for hair. Burlap covered in goat hair and matted grass covers the back of the wearer’s head.

Six different drumsticks. All are made of cut lengths of bamboo, ranging in length from 23 cm to 39 cm. Parts e-f have been narrowed slightly at one end and are covered with a black coating. The other sticks have not been modified or coated.

Pair of bamboo clappers. Instrument consists of two long rectangular pieces of curved bamboo, tied together at one end with white woven cotton rope looped through two holes bored through each clapper. No decoration or inscription.