Bird Headdress with Mask (Kpakologi) and Costume (Onilegagi)

early to mid-20th century

Medium: Feathers (including touraco and guinea fowl), fiber, white and black pigment, wood, cotton cloth, metal,leather,hide, and reeds
Dimensions: 77 × 40 × 26 in. (195.58 × 101.6 × 66.04 cm)
mask with headdress: 40 1/2 × 15 × 17 1/2 in. (102.87 × 38.1 × 44.45 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.556
Geography: Guinea Coast, Liberia, or Guinea Coast, Guinea
Culture: Loma, Pòrò association or Kpelle
Period: 20th century
Classification: Masks
Disclaimer: 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 records is ongoing.

Provenance

Jeremiah Cole, Los Angeles and Atlanta, unknown date - 1982
Charles B. Benenson Collection, donated to Yale University Art Gallery in 2004

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), 306, ill

Lisa R. Brody et al., "Ceremonial Objects: An Unusual Costume and the Leopard Society," in "Time Will Tell: Ethics and Choices in Conservation," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2010), 106–7, fig. 1

Ian McClure, Laurence Kanter, and Lisa R. Brody, "Introduction," in "Time Will Tell: Ethics and Choices in Conservation," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2010), 28, 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), 40, fig. 7

Barkley L. Hendricks, "Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," in "Photography at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222

Frederick John Lamp, "Charles Benenson and His Legacy of African Art to Yale," in "Recent Acquisitions 2001–2003," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 38, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

ceremonial objects, headdress, headgear, masks (costume)

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