Gelede Mask
Unidentified Yoruba maker
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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