Male Mask of Authority

Unidentified style of the Kingdom of Kom maker

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about 1900

Wood, camwood powder, and kaolin

Overall: 21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm)

Overall: 21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund

S.973.164

Geography

Place Made: Grassfield region, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa

Period

19th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Mask

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

African Art from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 30, 1975.

African Spring, Rotunda, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 28-May 18, 1980, in conjunction with Nigerian Splendor.

Art That Lives? Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Allvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 25, 2009-July 2010.

Imaging West Africa in Mask and Costume, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 31, 1994-March 5, 1995.

Peoples and Cultures of Africa, Anthropology 44, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29 - December 18, 1994.

Recent Acquistions, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-27, 1974.

The Mask: It Covers, It Transforms, It Reveals, Anthro 81, museology seminar, Tamara Northern, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 30-Fall 1982.

The Ritual Context of African Art, Dartmouth College Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-September 1975.

Publication History

Upper Valley Magazine Preview of the Arts, January/February 1995,Van Etten, Inc., 1995, ill. p. 65

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1985, p. 71, no. 44.

Alexander Bortolot, Art That Lives? Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Hood Mueum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, ill. p. 19, no. 13.

Provenance

In the collection of Arthur Max Heinrich Speyer (1894-1958) Berlin, Germany; John J. (1906-1995) and Halina Klejman (1908-2007) Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1973.

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