Mask (Tourist)

Unidentified Salampasu maker

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after 1950

Wood and copper

Overall: 13 in. (33 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Morton D. May, Class of 1936

S.968.14

Geography

Place Made: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Mask

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

African Images, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1972.

Arts of West and Central Africa, The Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, February 8-29, 1976.

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

Provenance

Morton D. May (1914-1983, Class of 1936); given to present collection, 1968.

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