Mask | Yale University Art Gallery

20th century, before 1954

Medium: Wood from the Apocynaceae tree family
Dimensions: 11 × 5 × 5 in. (27.94 × 12.7 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn for the Linton Collection of African Art
Accession Number: 1954.28.5
Geography: Guinea Coast, Liberia
Culture: Dan
Period: 20th century
Classification: Masks
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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

Jessica Feinstein, "Art, Out of Africa," Yale Daily News (January 30, 2004), B1, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

ceremonial objects, masks (costume)

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