Gallery Location
Not currently on view
- Artist/Maker
- Unknown (Malian, Dogon People)
- Title
- Great Mask (Imina na)
- Date
- 1847
- Material & Process
- Wood
- Dimensions
- 61 1/2 x 6 3/4 x 6 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Pascal James Imperato
- Inventory No.
- 1996.25.1
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Location
- Mali
Related
1847, carved for the Sigui Festival (held every sixty years) in Cercle of Bandiagara, Mali. 1969, acquired in Mali by Dr. and Mrs. Pascal James Imperato (Manhasset, NY); 2 October 1996, gifted by Dr. and Mrs. Pascal James Imperato to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- L. Kahan Gallery. “Dogon Cliff Dwellers: The Art of Mali’s Mountain People.” New York: L. Kahan Gallery/African Arts, 1978. illus.
- Dogon Cliff Dwellers: The Art of Mali’s Mountain People (1978): L. Kahan Gallery, New York City
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