Mask with Bird's Beak

Unidentified Touba maker

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not dated

Wood, Cowrie shells, and beads

Overall: 13 in. (33 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection

996.25.30243

Geography

Place Made: Sierra Leone, Western Africa, Africa

Period

19th-20th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Mask

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

Recontextualizing 'Primitive' Art: Melanesian and African Works, An Exhibition in Process, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 72, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 25, 1997.

Publication History

Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 23.

Provenance

Harry A. Franklin Family Collection; lent to present collection, 1996; given to present collection, 2001.

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