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Mask

19th to mid-20th century

Wood from the Rubiaceae tree family

13 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 3 in. (34.29 × 14.61 × 7.62 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn for the Linton Collection of African Art
1960.33.5
Geography: 
Geography Burkina Faso
or geography Mali
or geography Côte d’Ivoire
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Senufo
Period: 
19th–20th century
Classification: 
Masks
Provenance: 

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 1960

Bibliography: 

Ralph Linton, The Linton Collection of African Sculpture: An Exhibition, March 13 through April 18, 1954, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1954), no. 51.

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