Antelope Mask of the Dama Funerary Masquerade
Unidentified Dogon maker
late 19th century
Wood, pigment, fiber, and cotton cloth strips
Overall: 38 1/2 in. (97.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund
990.12.27074
Geography
Place Made: Mali, Western Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
Art of West Africa, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, 1968.
Correspondences: African Sculpture at the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 12, 1996-March 2, 1997.
Curator's Choice: Recent Acquisitions and Loans of African Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1991.
Faces of Culture: Masks from the Permanent Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1991-November 1, 1993.
Publication History
Sotheby's, The Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of African Art, April 21, 1990, Sale 6001 REGAL, lot 27.
Provenance
Collected by Harry A. Franklin (1904-1983), Los Angeles, California, date unknown; bequeathed to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; Sotheby's, The Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of African Art, Sale 6001, New York, New York, April 21, 1990, lot 27; sold to the present collection, 1990.
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