Female Bush-Spirit Mask

Female Bush-Spirit Mask

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Artist
Unknown (Ivorian, Gueré People)
Title
Female Bush-Spirit Mask
Date
20th century
Medium
Wood, kaolin, pigment, brass tacks, cloth, hair, bells, and artillery shell casings
Dimensions
16 7/8 x 12 x 6 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Willy Haeberli in memory of his wife, Gabriele Haberland
Accession No.
2022.24.7
Classification
Sculpture
Geography
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)

Related

<span>By April 1976, with Pace Primitive and Ancient Art (New York, NY); Unknown date, sold by Pace Primitive and Ancient Art (New York, NY) to Lucille and Arnold Alderman; Collection Lucille and Arnold Alderman; 18 May 2002, sold from the Alderman Collection at Sotheby’s (New York, NY) auction "Arts of Africa, Oceania &amp; the Americas" [sale 7795, lot 24]; 18 May 2002, purchased from Sotheby’s (New York) auction by Gabriele Haberland and Willy Haeberli; 2021, bequeathed by Willy Haeberli to the Chazen Museum of Art</span>

  • Pace Primitive and Ancient Art. "African Spirit Images and Identities," April 24-May 29, 1976. pp. 15, 53, Fig. 78

  • African Spirit Images and Identities: Pace Primitive and Ancient Art, 4/24/1976–5/29/1976

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