id:			148746
accession number:	1976.187
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.187
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:39.656000

Egúngún Masquerade Dance Costume, 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker. Cotton, velvet, flannel, dye, faux fur, leather, cowrie shells; overall: 167.6 x 66 x 40.6 cm (66 x 26 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White 1976.187

title:				Egúngún Masquerade Dance Costume
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creation date:			1900s
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1975
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creditline:			Gift of Katherine C. White
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker
technique:	cotton, velvet, flannel, dye, faux fur, leather, cowrie shells
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Mask
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measurements: Overall: 167.6 x 66 x 40.6 cm (66 x 26 x 16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review, 1976
	opening date:   1977-02-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review, 1976</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Katherine C. White
	date: ?-1977
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift
	date: 1977-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Aremu, P. S. O. "Between Myth and Reality: Yoruba Egungun Costumes as Commemorative Clothes." <em>Journal of Black Studies</em> 22, no. 1 (1991).
	page number: 	p. 6-14
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/2784493.

	Fitzgerald, Mary Ann, Henry J. Drewal, and Moyo Okediji. "Transformation through Cloth: An Egungun Costume of the Yoruba." <em>African Arts</em> 28, no. 2 (1995)
	page number: 	p. 55-57
	url:		doi:10.2307/3337226.

	Drewal, Margaret Thompson. Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
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