id: 154915 accession number: 1989.48 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.48 updated: 2023-04-21 21:04:21.365000 Face Mask, early 1900s. Attributed to Sabariko Koné (Senufo, d. c. 1950). Wood, upholstery studs, resin, and paint; overall: 31.6 x 16.7 x 11.4 cm (12 7/16 x 6 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1989.48 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: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire technique: Wood, upholstery studs, resin, and paint department: African Art collection: African Art type: Mask find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sabariko Koné (Senufo, d. c. 1950) - artist See http://www.mappingsenufo.org/archives/734 --- measurements: Overall: 31.6 x 16.7 x 11.4 cm (12 7/16 x 6 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Notable Acquisitions opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). title: Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa opening date: 2015-02-22T00:00:00 Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-May 31, 2015); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (June 28-September 27, 2015); Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (November 28, 2015-March 6, 2016). title: African Master Carvers: Known and Famous opening date: 2017-03-26T04:00:00 African Master Carvers: Known and Famous. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 16, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 1991: "Notable Acquisitions," Bulletin 78 (June 1991), p. 114, repr.
The Cleveland Museum of Art (2/22/15-5/31/15) Saint Louis Art Museum (6/28/15-9/27/15) Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (11/28/15-3/6/16) "Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa"
The Cleveland Museum of Art (3/26/2017-7/16/2017); “African Master Carvers: Known and Famous”. --- PROVENANCE James Freeman, Kyoto, Japan date: ?-1989 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH by purchase date: 1989- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Face masks like this example are most typically worn during initiation and funerary rituals of a poro association, an age-based organization with religious and sociopolitical responsibilities. Though only worn by men, the masks have facial characteristics that are essentially female, and their imagery is closely related to ideas of sexuality and fertility. The scarification mark on this mask’s forehead is an oblique symbol of a woman’s genitalia, while its lustrous black surface imitates a woman’s oiled, smooth skin—a sign of ideal feminine beauty. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Drewal, Henry John. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 114 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319 Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. page number: Reproduced: cat. 6, p. 42 - 43 url: Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth, and Constantijn Petridis. Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: fig. 103, pp. 152-3 url: Petridis, Constantine, and Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, "Mapping Senufo: Making Visible Debatable Information and Situated Knowledge" Emily Lew Fry and Erin Canning, eds., Perspectives on Data (Art Institute of Chicago, 2022). page number: Fig. 9 url: https://www.artic.edu/digital-publications/37/perspectives-on-data/23/mapping-senufo --- IMAGES