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.

Mask, Igbo — front view — Front · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0 — Cleveland Museum of Art

Catalogued by Cleveland Museum of Art as “Mask”, dated c. 1910. 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 / culture	Yoruba
Country	Nigeria
Common name	Mask
Form category	Headdress or crest worn atop the head
Subject depicted	Ancestor or named individual
Materials	Wood and paint
Dimensions	Overall: 17.8 x 26.8 x 23 cm (7 x 10 9/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Provenance

William Albert Price (?–1921)
The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift (1921–?)

Collection	Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number	1921.1531

Source

Cleveland Museum of Art, Mask, accession 1921.1531. https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1531

https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1531

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