Plank Mask (Karan Wemba)
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 “Plank Mask (Karan Wemba)”, dated Late 19th/early 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 | Mossi |
|---|---|
| Country | Burkina Faso |
| Common name | Plank Mask (Karan Wemba) |
| Materials | Wood and pigment |
| Dimensions | 161.3 × 24.1 × 17.8 cm (63 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 7 in.) |
Maître L’Oiseau (died 1994), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, after 1957; sold to Jean-Edouard Charpentier, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire by the late 1970s [see correspondence with Michael Oliver in curatorial file]; sold to Wayne Heathcote, Wayne Heathcote Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, and Michael Oliver, Michael Oliver African Art, New York, N.Y., 1994; sold to the Art Institute, 2000.
| Collection | The Art Institute of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Accession number | 2000.62 |
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/154234
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