id: 141744
accession number: 1965.325
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.325
updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:13.944000
Headdress (chi wara), early to mid-1900s. Africa, West Africa, Mali, Bamana-style blacksmith-carver. Wood, cowrie shells, glass beads, possibly aluminum, iron alloy, upholstery studs, and natural fibers; overall: 44.5 x 66 cm (17 1/2 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Ralph M. Coe in memory of Ralph M. Coe 1965.325
title: Headdress (chi wara)
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creation date: early to mid-1900s
creation date earliest: 1900
creation date latest: 1970
current location: 108A Sub-Saharan
creditline: Gift of Mrs. Ralph M. Coe in memory of Ralph M. Coe
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culture: Africa, West Africa, Mali, Bamana-style blacksmith-carver
technique: Wood, cowrie shells, glass beads, possibly aluminum, iron alloy, upholstery studs, and natural fibers
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Mask
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measurements: Overall: 44.5 x 66 cm (17 1/2 x 26 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1965
opening date: 1965-10-27T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).
title: Artlens Exhibition 2017
opening date: 2017-06-24T04:00:00
Artlens Exhibition 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24, 2017-May 29, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Kansas City, MO, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World (1962), cat. no. 3.', 'opening_date': '1962-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA 1965: "Year in Review," Bulletin, LII (November 1965), p, 152, no. 22.', 'opening_date': '1965-11-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York, NY)
date: 1954
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Mrs. Ralph M. Coe [Dorothy deWolf Tracey, 1890-1966] Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1954-1965
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1965-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: cat. 3, p. 36 - 37
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Petridis, Constantine., "New Light on African Art", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 06, Summer 2003
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-06/page/n5
Petridis, Constantine. "A World of Great Art for Everyone." In Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display. Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke, 104-121. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 119-120
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William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962.
page number: Mentioned: p. 10, p. 12, cat. no. 3
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Art Institute of Chicago, Constantijn Petridis, and Martha G. Anderson. Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. 2020, 26.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 25-26, fig. 4
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IMAGES
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