Feb 17, 2017
Wooden Ndaka mask
A wooden mask created by the Ndaka people of the Ituri rainforest. African American anthropologist Joseph Allen Towles (1937-1988) met British anthropologist Colin Macmillan Turnbull (1924-1994) in 1959. Towles and Turnbull spent various periods of time in Africa, conducting fieldwork on the Mbuti, Mbo, and Ik peoples where they collected artifacts like this mask.
From the Joseph Towles Artifact Collection held by the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.
