Banda Mask
Unidentified Nalu or Baga maker
about 1950
Polychrome wood
Overall: 45 1/4 × 13 3/8 × 9 13/16 in. (115 × 34 × 25 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H
S.967.118
Geography
Place Made: Guinea, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
African Spring, Rotunda, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 1-May 18, 1980, in conjunction with Nigerian Splendor.
Point of View: Africa on Display?, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 1, 2003-February 22, 2003.
The Mask: It Covers, It Transforms, It Reveals, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 30-Fall 1982, Anthro 81, museology seminar, Tamara Northern.
Provenance
Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1967.
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