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Headdress (Banda/Kumbaruba)

early 20th century

Ceiba wood and pigment

23 in. (58.4 cm)
23 × 7 × 8 1/2 in. (58.42 × 17.78 × 21.59 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn for the Linton Collection of African Art
1954.28.3
Geography: 
Guinea-Bissau
or geography Guinea Coast, Guinea
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Baga or Nalu
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Masks
Provenance: 

Dr. Ralph Linton (1893–1953), by 1953 [see note 1]; by descent to his wife, Adelin Hohlfield Linton (1899–1977); sold to Marie-Louise Montgomery Osborn (1905–1968) and James Marshall Osborn (1906–1976), 1954; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.,1954

Note 1: Ralph Linton was the Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale from 1946 until his death in 1953.

Bibliography: 

Frederick John Lamp, Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention, exh. cat. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1996), 129, no. 106.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.