Initiation Mask (presents the ancestral Mbunda chief Linyampa)
Unidentified Mbunda maker
1950s
Bark Cloth, wood, and paint
Overall: 36 5/8 × 20 1/16 × 14 in. (93 × 50.9 × 35.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
166.1.15897
Geography
Place Made: Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Provenance
J. R. Ivy, Ltd., Pretoria, South Africa; purchased by Professor James W. Fernandez for the Dartmouth College Museum, 1965; sold to present collection, 1966.
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