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Unidentified and Kuba

Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga)

Kuba, 1970s

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  • Artist: Unidentified
  • Culture: Kuba

Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga)

Kuba, 1970s

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
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2013; Richard L. Lee, Washington
African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
"Global Stores." BMA Today, no. 166, fall 2021: p. 25.
"Treasures from Africa and Asia," "BMA Today," Winter-Spring 2015, The Baltimore Museum of Art, no. 4, p. 4, ill.

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Unidentified

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