id:			146107
accession number:	1971.294
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.294
updated:		2023-12-08 13:49:41.185000

Face Mask, early 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire or Liberia, Wè-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

title:				Face Mask
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creation date:			early 1900s
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1920
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			Gift of Katherine C. White
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire or Liberia, Wè-style carver
technique:	Wood, boar tusks, pelt, cloth, human hair, probably aluminum, reeds, iron alloy, copper alloy, plant fiber, and paint
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Mask
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measurements: Overall: 38.1 cm (15 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 60, repr.; also to University Museum, Philadelphia.<br>CMA 1973: "Year in Review 1972," CMA Bulletin LX (March, 1973), p. 107, no. 37

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PROVENANCE

	Harry Franklin, Los Angeles
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	Harry Franklin, Los Angeles; Katherine White Reswick
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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
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	“New Acquisitions.” <em>African Arts</em> 5, no. 4 (Summer 1972): 77–78.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 78
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/3334598

	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
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	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
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