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Female Mask (Wan-Balinga)

Mossi

Female Mask (Wan-Balinga)

Mossi, 1867

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Mossi

Female Mask (Wan-Balinga)

Mossi, 1867

Physical Qualities Wood, hide, pigment, 11 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. (28.6 x 16.5 x 15 cm.)
Credit Line Friends of Art Fund
Object Number 1974.38
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.29, ill.

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