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Not currently on view
- Artist
- Unknown (Sierra Leonean, Sewa-Mende People)
- Title
- Sande Society Mask (Sowei)
- Date
- ca. 1945
- Medium
- Wood, pigment, and blackened raffia
- Dimensions
- 14 3/4 x diam. 9 1/2 in. Overall
- Credit
- J. David and Laura Seefried Horsfall Endowment Fund purchase
- Accession No.
- 1992.36
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Geography
- Sierra Leone
Related
by January 1988, with Charles D. Miller III; 1992, sold by Charles D. Miller III of Aspects of Africa, Inc. (St. James, New York) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Exhibition gallery guide, "Revealing Forms: African Art from the Elvehjem Collection." 2002.
- Drewal, Henry John. "African Art at the Elvehjem." Bulletin/Biennial Report 2001-2003. Elvehjem Museum of Art (2003): 16-36. p. 27
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 8, No. 5, November/ December 1992. p. 3
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin 1991-1993." Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1994. p. 130
- Rarey, Matthew Francis and Henry John Drewal. "Never at Rest: African Art at the University of Wisconsin." African Arts, vol 53, no. 4 (2020): 68-85. fig. 11
- Mato, Daniel and Charles Miller III. "Sande: Masks and Statues from Liberia and Sierra Leone." Amsterdam: Gallery Balolu, 1990. pp. 30-31, illus. p. 31
- Drewal, Henry John. "Shapes of the Mind: African Art from Long Island Collections." exh. cat. Hempstead, NY: Hofstra Museum, 1988. p. 17, illus. p. 17
- Revealing Forms: African Art from the Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/20/2002–6/16/2002
- Shapes of the Mind: African Art from Long Island Collections: Hofstra Museum, 1/31/1988–3/25/1988
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