Initiation Mask

Unidentified Wobe maker

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Wood, cotton cloth, hair, metal, and pigment

Overall: 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Douglas Ross

176.5.25604

Geography

Place Made: Cote d'Ivoire, Western Africa, Africa

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Mask

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

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

Provenance

Collected by Douglas Carroll Ross (1930-1978), Woodstock, Vermont, in 1955-1956; given to present collection, 1976.

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