id:			155510
accession number:	1990.23
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.23
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:09.692000

Headdress, early 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Ejagham-style maker. Wood, rawhide, cane, paint, bone or ivory, natural fiber, and metal; overall: 67.3 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm (26 1/2 x 17 x 17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1990.23

title:				Headdress
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creation date:			early 1900s
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1925
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Ejagham-style maker
technique:	Wood, rawhide, cane, paint, bone or ivory, natural fiber, and metal
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Mask
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measurements: Overall: 67.3 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm (26 1/2 x 17 x 17 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Notable Acquisitions
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Notable Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Pace Gallery, New York, NY
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	Private Collection
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	Entwistle and Co., Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1990
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1990–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Drewal, Henry John. "Notable Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 113
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319

	Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>African Arts</em> 30, no. 1 (1997).
	page number: 	pp. 66-71
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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: 	Reproduced: cat. 29, p. 88 - 89
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	Petridis, Constantine. "A New Installation for African Art in Cleveland." <em>Tribal </em>3, no. 36 (Autumn/Winter 2004).
	page number: 	pp. 68-73
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 32-33
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