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Limba

Male ancestral mask

Limba, 1900

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Limba

Male ancestral mask

Limba, 1900

Physical Qualities Wood, oil, 17 1/8 × 10 3/8 × 8 7/8 in. (43.5 × 26.3 × 22.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert and Mary Cumming, Baltimore
Object Number 1994.181
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.212, ill.

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