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Bamana

Kono Association Mask

Bamana, 1900

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Kono Association Mask

Bamana

Kono Association Mask

Bamana

Kono Association Mask

Bamana, 1900

Physical Qualities Wood, encrustations, cotton string, feathers, 41 in. (104.1 cm.)

Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Alan Wurtzburger

Object Number 1960.66

"Subverting Beauty: African Anti-Aesthetics", Jul 15, 2018 - Nov 17, 2019, BMA, Kevin Tervala.

Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.41, ill.

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