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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:
Geography Southern Guro region, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Coast
Status:
On view
Culture:
Guro
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Masks
Provenance:
Carved by Master of Buafle, Southern Guro Region, Ivory Coast, unknown date
Dr. Ralph Linton, Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale, unknown date–1953
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn donated to Yale University Art Gallery for the Linton Collection of African Art in 1954
Bibliography:
Eberhard Fischer, Guro: Masks, Performances and Master Carvers in Ivory Coast (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 2008), 336, fig. 333.
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.
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.
