Netsuke: Lion Dancer in Lion's mask from Noh Theatre
Unknown, Japanese, Japanese
19th century
Wood
Overall: 2 3/4 × 1 7/16 × 7/8 in. (7 × 3.6 × 2.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. James Foster Scott, in memory of her late husband, Victor J. Evans
157.9.13860
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Accessory
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Victor Justice Evans (1865-1931), Washington, D.C, date unknown; to his widow, (Mabel) Karen Gram Schaefer Evans Scott Allen (1891-1974), Meriden, New Hampshire, 1931; given to present collection, 1957.
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