Elephant Mask (Glao/Klolo)
- Culture: Baule
- Medium: Wood, pigment
- Place Made: Lacs, N’zi Comoe, or Valle du Bandama Region, Ivory Coast
- Dates: late 19th century
- Dimensions: 12 5/8 x 12 5/8 x 22 13/16 in. (32 x 32 x 58 cm)
- Collections: Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands
- Museum Location:
This item is not on view - Accession Number: 22.1771
- Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by Frederick Pratt
- Image: Side, 22.1771_edited_version_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
- Catalogue Description: Wooden mask representing an elephant. Large round ears with a smaller human mask in center of each ear. Eyes are round and pink. Zig-zag patterns along the length of trunk, upturned tusks. Condition: One mask in proper left ear is partially broken; few small cracks on front of face; one large crack under chin. One tusk previously broken.
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