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        "accession_number": "1972.341",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Male Mask, c. 1940s. Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Baule-style carver. Wood; overall: 22.9 cm (9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1972.341",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Male Mask",
        "creation_date": "c. 1940s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1940,
        "creation_date_latest": 1949,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Baule-style carver"
        ],
        "technique": "wood",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Mask",
        "measurements": "Overall: 22.9 cm (9 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 0.229,
                "height_inch": 9,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.0
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301752,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1972",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).",
                    "opening_date": "1973-02-27T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 79, repr.",
                    "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": [
            {
                "description": "Stolper",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1961    ",
                "sortorder": null
            },
            {
                "description": "Stolper (1961); Katherine White Reswick",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": null,
                "sortorder": null
            }
        ],
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        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "658.68"
        ],
        "did_you_know": null,
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Used in performances at women's funerals and harvest festivals this mask was probably a generalized portrait of a specific person noted for his dancing skill, beauty, and reputation. He would have danced alongside his mask image during the performance. Smooth, rounded surfaces and clearly defined facial scarifications are marks of beauty and civility among the Baule. See video",
        "external_resources": {
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            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Fagg, William, and Cleveland Museum of Art. 1968. <em>African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 79.",
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                "url": ""
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.341",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
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        "athena_id": 146943,
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1973-02-12T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1940,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "c. 1940s",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Male Mask (ngblo gbagba)"
        ],
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:43.394000"
    }
}