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Crocodile Mask, Bama da, 20th century

  • Bozo, Segou Mali, West African

Wood, metal, fabric, and pigment

  • Overall: 68 7/8 × 12 × 7 1/2 inches (174.9 × 30.5 × 19.1 cm)

Museum Purchase; gifts from Amelia Elizabeth White, the family of the late Henry Glover Stevens, by exchange

2014.29

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

(Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris, France)

2014-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bozo, Segou Mali, West African, Crocodile Mask, Bama da, 20th century, wood, metal, fabric, and pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase; gifts from Amelia Elizabeth White, the family of the late Henry Glover Stevens, by exchange, 2014.29.