Gẹlẹdẹ Mask

Unidentified Yoruba maker

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collected 1966

Wood and pigment

Overall: 13 3/4 × 10 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (35 × 26 × 20 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

167.6.24042

Geography

Place Made: Benin, Western Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Mask

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Course History

REL 7, Dark Goddesses and Black Madonnas, Elizabeth Perez, Winter 2013

AAAS 11, Introduction to African Studies, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013

ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R.Taylor, Fall 2013

REL 17, AAAS 83.5, African Religions of the Americas, Elizabeth Perez, Fall 2013

Exhibition History

Evolving Perspectives: Highlights from the African Art Collection at the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2013-April 6, 2014.

Works from the Continent of Africa, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-March 15, 2020.

Publication History

Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 19.

Provenance

Purchased by Professor James W. Fernandez north of Puerto Novo, Benin (Dahomey) for Dartmouth College Museum, 1967.

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