H x W x D: 55.6 x 24.8 x 16.8 cm (21 7/8 x 9 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
Type:
Mask
Geography:
Bamenda area, Grassfields region, Cameroon
Date:
Mid 20th century
Description:
Wood bushcow mask with nose ridge, open jaws with teeth, obal eyes, curving horns with one broken tip. Teeth, inside of ears and nostrils, painted white. White also around nose, eyes, base of horns
Exhibition History:
The Language of African Art, Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution Fine Arts & Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., May 24-September 7, 1970, no. 326
Baltimore, Scholls, Richmond, Corcoran
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