Initiation Society Mask (Waniougo)
Unidentified Senufo maker20th century
Wood and pigment
Overall: 15 × 31 × 11 in. (38.1 × 78.7 × 27.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Jerome E. Wexler, Clas of 1961
S.974.371
Geography/Culture
Africa, Western Africa, Cote d'Ivoire
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Classification
Africa
Not on view
Course History
SART 65, Architecture I, Zenovia Toloudi, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
The Ritual Context of African Art, Dartmouth College Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 1-September 1, 1975.
Peoples and Cultures of Africa, Anthropology 44, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29-December 18, 1994.
Arts of West and Central Africa, The Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, February 8-29, 1976.
African Art: A Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 44, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 31-December 6, 1998.
Provenance
Jerome E. Wexler, Chicago; given to present collection, 1974.
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