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Unidentified and Kuba

Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga)

Kuba, 1969

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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

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.

Artist

Unidentified

Culture

Kuba

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