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African Art
Artist: Master of Buafle
Zuhu Mask
early 19th century
Ceiba wood and pigment
24 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (62.2 × 19.05 × 13.97 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn for the Linton Collection of African Art
1954.28.33
Geography:
Southern Guro region, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Coast
Status:
On view
Culture:
Guro
Period:
19th 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:
Eberhard Fischer and Lorenz Homberger, Afrikanische Meister Kunst der Elfenbeinkuste (Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2014), 33, fig. 23.
Eberhard Fischer and Lorenz Homberger, Les maîtres de la sculpture de Côte d’Ivoire (Paris: Skira, 2015), fig. lll.23.
Eberhard Fischer, Guro: Masks, Performances and Master Carvers in Ivory Coast (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 2008), 336, fig. 333.
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.