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Firespitter Mask

2014.03.0455

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Artifact Identification Firespitter Mask   (2014.03.0455)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Ceremonial Artifacts
    3. :
  3. Funerary Objects
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date N/A
Culture Senufo
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 75.3 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 28 cm
Dimension 3 (Height) 27.1 cm
Weight 2,145 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Plant--Wood
Manufacturing Processes N/A

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 Lynn and Michael Noel Collection
Reproduction N/A

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