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Unidentified and Kuba

Opposition Mask (Bwoom)

Kuba, 1930s

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Opposition Mask (Bwoom)

Unidentified and Kuba

Opposition Mask (Bwoom)

  • Artist: Unidentified
  • Culture: Kuba

Opposition Mask (Bwoom)

Kuba, 1930s

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
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2013; Richard L. Lee, Washington
African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.

Artist

Unidentified

Culture

Kuba

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On View: Wurtzburger, Gallery

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