id: 144709 accession number: 1969.5 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.5 updated: 2025-07-11 17:02:55.647000 Helmet, late 1800s–early 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker. Wood and paint; overall: 62.9 cm (24 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1969.5 title: Helmet title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1800s–early 1900s creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1925 current location: creditline: Gift of Katherine C. White copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker technique: Wood and paint department: African Art collection: African Art type: Mask find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 62.9 cm (24 3/4 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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 113, repr.', 'opening_date': '1968-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan (Mary) date: at least 1935 footnotes: *
See photograph 2004.29.11587 in the collection of the Peabody Museum. https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/660890
citations: Everett Rassiga, New York (1921/22–2003) date: ?-1962 footnotes: citations: Katherine White Reswick date: 1962–69 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift date: 1969– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fagg, William, and Cleveland Museum of Art. 1968. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 113. page number: url: CMA 1970: "Year in Review 1969," CMA Bulletin LVII (Jan., 1970), p. 47, no. 135. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.5/1969.5_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.5/1969.5_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.5/1969.5_full.tif