id: 146107 accession number: 1971.294 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.294 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:29.453000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 1900s creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1920 current location: 108A Sub-Saharan creditline: Gift of Katherine C. White copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 38.1 cm (15 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'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 Harry Franklin, Los Angeles date: footnotes: citations: Harry Franklin, Los Angeles; Katherine White Reswick date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fagg, William. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 60 url: “New Acquisitions.” African Arts 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. African Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection: the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 6, fig. 8 url: Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 58-59, no. 14 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.294/1971.294_full.tif