Bovine Mask
Unidentified Kulango maker
early-mid 20th century
Wood, feathers, talismans, eggshell sacrificial patina, animal blood, palm wine, and unknown substances
Overall: 26 in. (66 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund and the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund
990.13.27075
Geography
Place Made: Cote d'Ivoire, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
African Arts of Transformation, The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, November 24-December 20, 1970.
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
Gazette Des Beaux-Artes. No. 1466, March 1991, cat. 271, page 62.
Sotheby's, The Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of African Art, New York, Sale 6001 "REGAL", lot 93, April 21, 1990.
Rene A. Bravmann, Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa, London, 1974, cover and plate 38.
Herbert M. Cole, Africn Arts of Transformation, Santa Barbara, 1970, fig. 95.
Provenance
Collected by Harry A. Franklin (1904-1983), Los Angeles, California, 1967; 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 93; sold to the present collection, 1990.
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