Female Face Mask (Ngady Mwaash)
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 “Female Face Mask (Ngady Mwaash)”, dated Late 19th-mid 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.
| People / culture | Kuba |
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| Country | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Common name | Female Face Mask (Ngady Mwaash) |
| Form category | Face mask |
| Materials | Wood, pigment, glass beads, cowrie shells, fabric, and thread |
| Dimensions | 31.8 × 20.6 × 20.5 cm (12 1/2 × 8 1/8 × 10 in.) |
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer München, Nov. 10, 1979, Ethnographic Art, 34, lot 282, as Ngaady Mwaash [illustrated on cover of auction catalogue; p. 83]; sold to Jacques Hautelet, Brussels, Belgium, and La Jolla, CA [personal communication from J. Hautelet, Oct. 2013, documented in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.
| Collection | The Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Accession number | 1982.1505 |
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/106184
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