Mask (Tourist)
Unidentified Salampasu maker
after 1950
Wood and copper
Overall: 13 in. (33 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Morton D. May, Class of 1936
S.968.14
Geography
Place Made: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
African Images, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1972.
Arts of West and Central Africa, The Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, February 8-29, 1976.
The Ritual Context of African Art, Dartmouth College Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-September 1975.
Provenance
Morton D. May (1914-1983, Class of 1936); given to present collection, 1968.
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