Unidentified and Kuba
Opposition Mask (Bwoom)
Kuba, 1929-1938
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Physical Qualities
Wood, fur, glass beads, cowrie shells, seed pods, raffia, cloth, pigment, 22 in. (55.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Friends of the Arts of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, and Amy Gould and Matthew Polk, Gibson Island, Maryland
Object Number
2013.364
Mask with protruding brow. Beaded bands on the forehead, across the eyes, running down the nose, and in the back of the mask. Cowries wrapping behind the head and at the chin line; cloth and fur suspended from the bottom of the mask.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2013; Richard L. Lee, Washington
African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
On View at the BMA
