Mask (Uzouwani)

Mask

Attribution: Museum-publishedProvenance: Museum accession

Attribution follows a published museum catalogue or peer-reviewed scholarship. Object is held in a public collection under a published accession number.

Catalogued by The Art Institute of Chicago as “Mask”, dated 19th/20th century. Harvested from the museum’s open-access record; every field below is copied from that record and none of it has been inferred.

Record

People / cultureIgbo
CountryNigeria
Common nameMask
MaterialsWood and pigment
Dimensions80.1 × 12.7 × 21 cm (31 1/2 × 5 × 8 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Robertson African Arts, New York, N.Y., by 1993; sold to Richard Faletti (died 2006) and Barbara Faletti (died 2000), Chicago, Ill. and Phoenix, Ariz., 1993; given to the Art Institute, 2006.

CollectionThe Art Institute of Chicago
Accession number2006.110

Source

The Art Institute of Chicago, Mask, accession 2006.110. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185857

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185857

This record is a catalogue entry, not an appraisal, valuation or legal determination. Nothing here should be read as evidence that an object was lawfully acquired or exported.