Water Spirit Headdress

early 20th century

African Art

On view, 1st floor, African Art
Medium

Wood and metal

Dimensions

29 1/8 × 9 7/16 × 9 1/4 × 29 1/2 in. (74 × 24 × 23.5 × 74.93 cm)

Credit Line

Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection

Accession Number

2006.51.228

Geography

Guinea Coast, Nigeria

Culture

Ijo

Period

20th century

Classification

Masks

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Possibly Merton Simpson, New York; John Friede (b. 1938), New York.Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn;Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • 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), 186, ill.
  • Frederick John Lamp, "Hot Space, Cool Space: The Reinstallation of the African Art Collection in the Louis Kahn Building at Yale University," African Arts 40 (Summer 2007): 48–49, fig. 25.
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006): 222–23, ill.
  • Susan Vogel and Jerry L. Thompson, Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture from an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1990), 148-149, fig. 80.
  • Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 266, fig. 696.
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

ceremonial objects, headdress, headgear, masks (costume)

Subject

spirits (beings)

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