{"data": {"id": 146107, "accession_number": "1971.294", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Face Mask (Tehe gla), early 1900s. Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire or Liberia, W\u00e8-style carver. Wood, boar tusks, pelt, cloth, human hair, probably aluminum, reeds, iron alloy, copper alloy, plant fiber, and paint; overall: 38.1 cm (15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1971.294", "current_location": "108A African", "title": "Face Mask (Tehe gla)", "creation_date": "early 1900s", "creation_date_earliest": 1900, "creation_date_latest": 1920, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire or Liberia, W\u00e8-style carver"], "technique": "Wood, boar tusks, pelt, cloth, human hair, probably aluminum, reeds, iron alloy, copper alloy, plant fiber, and paint", "support_materials": [], "department": "African Art", "collection": "African Art", "type": "Mask", "measurements": "Overall: 38.1 cm (15 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.381, "height_inch": 15, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [], "legacy": [{"description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 60, repr.; also to University Museum, Philadelphia.", "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA 1973: \"Year in Review 1972,\" CMA Bulletin LX (March, 1973), p. 107, no. 37", "opening_date": "1973-03-01T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Harry Franklin, Los Angeles", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null}, {"description": "Katherine White Reswick", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131971", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1971\u2013", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": ["830.68"], "did_you_know": "The masquerader who wore this mask also had a body costume of layers of raffia and matching anklets; cloth covered their head.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Tubular eyes and the fringe of carved leopard canine teeth identify this mask as male. Such masks appeared only during very important moments. The dancer wore a leopard skin over his head and shoulders, held an elephant's tusk in his hand, and had his face painted white. The masks function as peacemakers; they led soldiers into battle, and administered justice.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": [], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1971.294-face-mask"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Boyer, Alain-Michel. We. Milano: 5 Continents Editions, 2020.", "page_number": "p. 28, ill. pl. 10 and p. 109", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Fagg, William. <em>African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 60", "url": ""}, {"citation": "\u201cNew Acquisitions.\u201d <em>African Arts</em> 5, no. 4 (Summer 1972): 77\u201378.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 78", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/3334598"}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Henry John Drewal. <em>African Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection: the Cleveland Museum of A</em>rt. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 6, fig. 8", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art.</em> [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 58-59, no. 14", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.294", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_web.jpg", "width": "712", "height": "893", "filesize": "415737", "filename": "1971.294_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_print.jpg", "width": "2326", "height": "3000", "filesize": "4239604", "filename": "1971.294_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_full.tif", "width": "2326", "height": "3000", "filesize": "20946800", "filename": "1971.294_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "692", "height": "893", "filesize": "392345"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2326", "height": "3000", "filesize": "4239604"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_alt0_full.tif", "width": "2326", "height": "3000", "filesize": "20946800"}, "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "706", "height": "893", "filesize": "390593"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "2687", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4864272"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_alt1_full.tif", "width": "2700", "height": "3416", "filesize": "27688864"}, "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. 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