id: 171268 accession number: 2014.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.1 updated: 2025-05-05 19:54:48.408000 Mask (wan-balinga), early 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Burkina Faso, Mossi-style blacksmith-carver. Wood and paint; overall: 34 x 14 x 14 cm (13 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2014.1 title: Mask (wan-balinga) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 1900s creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1925 current location: 108A Sub-Saharan creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Burkina Faso, Mossi-style blacksmith-carver technique: Wood and paint department: African Art collection: African Art type: Mask find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 34 x 14 x 14 cm (13 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Charles Ratton, Paris, France date: before 1967 footnotes: citations: Evelyn Annenberg Hall & William Jaffe, New York, NY date: 1967–? footnotes: citations: Galerie Jacques Germain, Montreal, Canada date: footnotes: citations: (Galerie Jacques Germain, Montreal, Canada, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–2014 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2014– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Germain, Jacques, Céline Marti, and Hughes Dubois. 2006. Art Ancien De L’afrique Noire. Montréal: Jacques Germain Arts Ethnographiques, p.31. page number: url: Petridis, Constantine. “Acquisition Highlights 2014: African Art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 55, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 17. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 17. url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-02 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2014.1/2014.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2014.1/2014.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2014.1/2014.1_full.tif