About the Artwork
Epa Cult Mask
between 1920 and 1930
Bamigboye of Odo-Owa
African
African
Yoruba
Wood
Overall (by sight): 51 × 19 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (129.5 × 49.5 × 52.1 cm) Mount (by sight; footprint of mount): 14 × 14 inches (35.6 × 35.6 cm) Overall (without mount; by sight): 48 × 19 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (121.9 × 49.5 × 52.1 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Friends of African Art Fund
77.71
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African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London, 1995, cat. no. 27.
Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 5 (1978): 307, fig. 28.
“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News, April 14, 1985, 6 (ill.).
100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 70–71 (ill.).
Green, James. Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, pp. 63-65, (fig. 36 ill. front [p. 64] and back [p. 65]), p. 223.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Attributed to Bamigboye of Odo-Owa, Epa Cult Mask, between 1920 and 1930, Wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of African Art Fund, 77.71.
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