face mask

Culture
Dan people
Creation date
Collection
African
Materials
wood
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.
Currently On View
Credit line
Anonymous IV Art Fund
Accession number
2008.261
Provenance
Egon Gunther, South Africa [1]; (sold at Sotheby's, New York, May 19, 2001) [2]; Thomas D. Slater, Indianapolis; IMA.

[1] Mask was in Gunther collection no later than 1970. Exhibited at the Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa, 1970. Published in A.J. Werth, Art of Africa: African Art from South African Collections, Pretoria, 1970
[2] Sotheby's, New York, Art of Africa, Oceania and the America's, auction catalogue, lot 141, May 19, 2001
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