Mask | Yale University Art Gallery

early to mid-20th century

Medium: Terracotta, pigment, and resin or wax
Dimensions: 10 1/2 × 8 × 6 in. (26.67 × 20.32 × 15.24 cm)
with base: 17 × 8 × 6 1/2 in. (43.18 × 20.32 × 16.51 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Alice Van Leuvan Hekster, M.M. 1959, in memory of her husband, Walter Hekster, M.M. 1963
Accession Number: 2013.123.5
Geography: Tanzania, or Mozambique
Culture: Makonde
Period: 20th century
Classification: Masks
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Provenance

L. Kahan Gallery, New York, New York, possibly 1989-90
Gift of Alice Van Leuvan Hekster to Yale University Art Gallery in 2013

Bibliography

"Acquisitions 2014," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2014), 3

Ferry Herrebrush, een keuze uit de verzameling van Walter Hekster (Amsterdam: Ferry Herrebrush, 2012), n.p., ill

Charles Bordogna and Leonard Kahan, A Tanzanian Tradition, exh. cat. (Tenafly, N.J.: African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers, 1989), 51, fig. 52

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

ceremonial objects, masks (costume)

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