Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1924 by anthropologist Samuel K. Lothrop (1892-1965, MAI staff member) during MAI-sponsored fieldwork.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Lenca
- Collector
- Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (S.K. Lothrop/SKL), Non-Indian, 1892-1965
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Wood, glass eyes
- Techniques
- Carved, inlaid
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
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