id: 144495 accession number: 1969.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.2 updated: 2022-06-22 09:01:02.031000 Buffalo Mask, early to mid-1900s. Africa, West Africa, Burkina Faso, possibly Bwa-style maker. Wood, plant fibers, paint, and iron; overall: 69.8 cm (27 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White 1969.2 title: Buffalo Mask title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early to mid-1900s creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1970 current location: 108A Sub-Saharan creditline: Gift of Katherine C. White copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Burkina Faso, possibly Bwa-style maker technique: Wood, plant fibers, paint, and iron department: African Art collection: African Art type: Mask find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 69.8 cm (27 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: A Cleveland Bestiary opening date: 1981-10-14T04:00:00 A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14-December 16, 1981). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 1968: African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection, cat. no. 31, repr.
CMA 1970: "Year in Review 1969," CMA Bulletin LVII (Jan., 1970), p. 47, no. 128, repr. p. 41.
CMA 1981: A Cleveland Bestiary, October 14-December 9, 1981, cat. no. 11, repr. p, 17. --- PROVENANCE Katherine C. White [1929-1980], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1969 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1969– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: Among the Bwa people, masks with human, animal, and fantastic traits typically represent protective bush spirits. This mask’s horns and muzzle identify it as a bush buffalo. Masked dancers appear during the dry season for initiations, funerals of elders, market days, harvest celebrations, and annual renewal rituals to protect the well-being of the community. wall description: Among the Bwa people, masks with human, animal, and fantastic traits typically represent protective bush spirits. This mask’s horns and muzzle identify it as a bush buffalo. Masked dancers appear during the dry season for initiations, funerals of elders, market days, harvest celebrations, and annual renewal rituals to protect the well-being of the community. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 411 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n431 Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Mentioned: p. 16, p. 60; Reproduced: p. 17 url: Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. page number: Reproduced: cat. 5, p. 40 - 41 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.2/1969.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.2/1969.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.2/1969.2_full.tif