Initiation Society Mask
Unidentified Dogon maker
early 20th century
Wood, metal, cotton cloth, and cowries
Overall: 23 1/2 in. (59.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall
S.973.317
Geography
Place Made: Mali, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
"The Mask: It Covers, It Transforms, It Reveals," Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, April 30-Fall 1982, organized by students in Tamara Northern's museology seminar, Anthro 81.
African Art from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 30, 1975.
Arts of West and Central Africa, The Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, February 8-29, 1976.
Recent Acquisitions, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June-July 1972.
The Ritual Context of African Art, Dartmouth College Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-September 1975.
Provenance
Charles Ratton (1897-1986) collection, Paris; Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005), New York; given to present collection, 1973.
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