Kwado Gbyogoma, Numu, and others
Mask (Gbain)
Numu, 1933
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Wood, animal skull, fiber, pigment, encrustation (mud, blood, palm wine, egg shells), 31 1/8 in. (79 cm.)
Credit Line
Friends of Art Fund
Object Number
1966.34
Purchased for The Baltimore Museum of Art by the Director, Charles Parkhurst, in Dakar, April 1966; said by the dealer to have been collected in the area of Sinematiali village of the Senufo people, Ivory Coast
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.266, ill.
