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Firespitter Dance Costume

2008.22.0069

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Artifact Identification Firespitter Dance Costume   (2008.22.0069)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Ceremonial Artifacts
    3. :
  3. Holiday Objects
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Contemporary
Date 1984 - 2005
Culture Senufo
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 151 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 111 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) .35 cm
Weight 1263 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Pigment--Dye, Textile
Manufacturing Processes Cutting, Dyeing--Resist, Inserting, Joining, Ropemaking, Sewing, Weaving

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Richter, Dolores. Senufo Mask Classification. African Arts Magazine, vol. 12 no. 3 (May, 1979). p. 72.

Weaving in Africa by Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, 1987, p. 223 for illustration of similar example leopard dancing costume, private collection, acquired in 1980.

Glaze, Anita. “Woman Power and Art in a Senufo Village.” African Arts 8, no. 3
(1975): 24-29; 64-68, 90.


__________. “Senufo Ornament and Decorative Arts.” African Arts 12, no. 1
(1978): 63-71, 107-108.


__________. Art and Death in a Senufo Village. Bloomington and London:
Indiana University Press, 1981.


___________. “Face Mask.” In For Spirits and Kings. African Art from the
Tishman Collection, edited by Susan Vogel, 41-42. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.


___________. “Dialectics of Gender in Senufo Masquerades.” African Arts 19,
no. 3 (1986): 30-39, 82.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Kieffer-Lopez Collection
Reproduction No

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