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Pende

Mask (Giwoyo)

1889

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Pende

Mask (Giwoyo)

1889

Physical Qualities Wood, pigment, fiber, 32 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 9 in. (82.6 × 29.2 × 22.9 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Asif Shaikh, Charlotte, North Carolina
Object Number 2020.46
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2020; Asif Shaikh by purchase,1998 - Present; Hugh and Ida Kohlemeyer, by purchase, ?? - 1998; Marc Felix, by purchase, collected by Belgian colonial administrator ca. 1920; published in New Orleans Collections
“Materials of Africa: African Art in New Orleans Collections,” Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University (November 29, 2001 – February 10, 2002)
J. Thomas Lewis, ed. "Materials of Africa: African Art in New Orelans Collections." New Orleans: Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, 2001.

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