Mask with Bird's Beak
Unidentified Touba maker
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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