Suku
Helmet Mask
Suku, 20th century
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Suku
Helmet Mask
Suku, 20th century
Physical Qualities
Wood, pigment, iron, 10 5/8 x 9 7/16 x 11 7/16 in. (27 x 24 x 29 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Geneviève McMillan in Memory of Reba Stewart
Object Number
2008.195
Face painted white with two blue marks beneath each eye, across the eyebrows, and on the ear and upper right forehead; yellow lips; red back of head; black/brown coiffure. Large repaired crack leading from left eye over the forehead.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Geneviève McMillan by purchase (Omar?), 1979.
"In a New Light/News of the Campaign for The Baltimore Museum of Art," BMA, Fall 2009, ill.
Inscribed: On inside of mask, in white paint and in black ink: "BU1".
