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Unidentified and Kuba

Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga)

Kuba, 1969-1978

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Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga)

Unidentified and Kuba

Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga)

  • Artist: Unidentified
  • Culture: Kuba

Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga)

Kuba, 1969-1978

Physical Qualities Raffia, cowrie shells, glass beads, wood, feathers, 22 1/4 in. (56.5 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 2013.363
Mask with projection curving upwards from the top of the head and raffia ruff around the base. The face is formed from beaded portions on cloth; the remainder of the mask is covered in cowrie shells and passages of beadwork.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2013; Richard L. Lee, Washington
African Reinstallation
African Gallery Rotations 2021
African Gallery Rotations 2022
African Gallery Rotations 2023
African Wing Rotations 2024
African Wing Rotations 2025
"Global Stores." BMA Today, no. 166, fall 2021: p. 25.
David A. Binkley and Patricia Darish, Kuba, Visions of Africa Series, Milan, 5 Continents Editions, 2009, pages 10, 121.

Artist

Unidentified

2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00

Culture

Kuba

2000–2000

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