Gallery Location
- Artist/Maker
- Unknown (Congolese, Pende People)
- Title
- Mask (Mbangu)
- Date
- early to mid-20th century
- Material & Process
- Wood, palm fiber and root, and kaolin pigment
- Dimensions
- 12 9/16 x 8 5/16 x 6 in. overall
- Credit
- Gift of Edie and William Swift
- Inventory No.
- 2025.14.10
- Classification
- Decorative Carving
- Location
- Democratic Republic of Congo
Related
1953, collected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then called the Belgian Congo); Behren? collection; by 1999, with Edie Swift (Fitchburg, WI); August 2025, gifted by Edie and William Swift (Fitchburg, WI) to the Chazen Museum of Art
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