Yaka
Helmet Mask
1900-1966
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Yaka
Helmet Mask
1900-1966
Physical Qualities
Wood, raffia, fiber, pigment, 24 × 21 3/4 × 14 in. (61 × 55.2 × 35.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Allen A. Davis
Object Number
2017.134
Wood face with textile crown with two curving horns. Face painted reddish brown, black and white.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2017; Allen A. Davis, Santa Fe, NM by purchase, 2012; Charles Moreau Gallery and Nasser & Co., New York City, NY; Robert Benton Collection, New York City, NY; Pace Primitive, New York City, NY, by purchase, 1992; Allen Davis Collection, Santa Fe, NM; Francois Neyt; Ferri Encheres, Drouot, Paris, France, 1979, lot 216.
Francois Neyt, "Traditional Arts and History of Zaire," 1981, p.113 Fig. IV:4.
Yale Archives for African Art, Number 0012957.
