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African Art
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Fly Whisk with a Human Mask Model
late 19th–early 20th century
Wood, horse tail hair, brass, and leather
34 × 6 1/2 × 3 7/8 in. (86.36 × 16.51 × 9.84 cm)
Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
2006.51.130
Geography:
Guinea Coast, Cameroon
Status:
On view
Culture:
Kom
Period:
19th–20th century
Classification:
Tools and Equipment
Provenance:
Possibly Pace Gallery, New York. Jacques Kerchache, Paris, to October 26, 1973; Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn, 1973–2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 318, fig. 816.
Richard Barnes, “Objects of Desire,” Yale Alumni Magazine (September/October 2004): 35, ill.
“Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006): 222.
Frederick John Lamp, Amanda Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan, Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 72, 140, fig. 15.
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.
