The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Face Mask

Face Mask

early 1900s
Wood, paint, and colorant
Overall: 31.7 cm (12 1/2 in.)
Gift of Katherine C. White 1971.296
Location: 108A Sub-Saharan

Description

Central Côte d'Ivoire is characterized by cultural assimilation and adoption. Connections can be seen in masquerades and in composite mask forms. Here, masks often blend human and animal features, and the depiction of elephant traits is a recurring theme. Yaure peoples associated elephant masks with a cult called Dye, and they appear when important sacrifices have to be made.
  • by 1965
    Harry Franklin, Los Angeles
    1965–71
    Katherine White Reswick, by purchase from the above
    Provenance Footnotes
    1 1974 object label2003 Object Report, curatorial file
    2 1974 object label2003 Object Report, curatorial file
  • Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. Reproduced: cat. 15, p. 60 - 61
  • CMA 1973: "Year in Review 1972," CMA Bulletin LX (March, 1973), p. 106, no. 22, repr. p. 104.
    CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 73, repr.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.296