About the Artwork
Elephant Society Mask
between 1850 and 1950
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African
Bamileke
Wood, cloth, woven raffia, and beads
Sight (object only): 73 3/4 × 16 1/4 × 17 inches (187.3 × 41.3 × 43.2 cm) Sight (on mount): 76 3/4 × 16 1/4 × 17 inches (194.9 × 41.3 × 43.2 cm)
Costume Accessories
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art
77.56
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Provenance
(Pace Primitive & Ancient Art)
1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 56 (1978): p. 325, (fig. 38).
African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 42.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Bamileke, African, Elephant Society Mask, between 1850 and 1950, wood, cloth, woven raffia, and beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, 77.56.
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