Antelope Mask of the Dama Funerary Masquerade

Unidentified Dogon maker

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late 19th century

Wood, pigment, fiber, and cotton cloth strips

Overall: 38 1/2 in. (97.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund

990.12.27074

Geography

Place Made: Mali, Western Africa, Africa

Period

19th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Mask

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

Art of West Africa, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, 1968.

Correspondences: African Sculpture at the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 12, 1996-March 2, 1997.

Curator's Choice: Recent Acquisitions and Loans of African Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1991.

Faces of Culture: Masks from the Permanent Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1991-November 1, 1993.

Publication History

Sotheby's, The Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of African Art, April 21, 1990, Sale 6001 REGAL, lot 27.

Provenance

Collected by Harry A. Franklin (1904-1983), Los Angeles, California, date unknown; bequeathed to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; Sotheby's, The Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of African Art, Sale 6001, New York, New York, April 21, 1990, lot 27; sold to the present collection, 1990.

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