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Lwena

Mask (Mwana wa Pwevo)

Lwena, 1899-1924

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Lwena

Mask (Mwana wa Pwevo)

Lwena, 1899-1924

Physical Qualities Wood, plant fiber, glass beads, 9 1/16 x 9 1/16 x 8 11/16 in. (23 x 23 x 22 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger, by exchange, through the cooperation of Murray and Barbara Frum, Toronto
Object Number 1982.1
Meditations on African Art: Pattern

Chokwe! Art and Initiation among Chokwe and Related Peoples

Wurtzburger Traveling

African Reinstallation

A Perfect Power: Motherhood and African Art

African Gallery Rotations 2021

African Gallery Rotations 2022

African Gallery Rotations 2023

African Wing Rotations 2024

African Wing Rotations 2025
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.179, ill.
See object file for 198

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2000–2000

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