Warrior's Association Mask (Agwe Chaka)

Unidentified Widekum maker

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20th century

Wood, antelope hide, raffia palm rib, human hair, and kaolin

Overall: 17 in. (43.2 cm)

Overall: 17 in. (43.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall

S.973.318

Geography

Place Made: Cross River Area, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Mask

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

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

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

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

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

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

Publication History

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1985, p. 71, no. 43.

Provenance

Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005); given to present collection, 1973.

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