Firespitter Mask

2014.03.0455

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Basic Information

Artifact Identification	Firespitter Mask (2014.03.0455)
Classification/ Nomenclature	Communication Artifacts : Ceremonial Artifacts : Funerary Objects
Artist/Maker	Unknown
Geographic Location	Africa, West : Cote d’Ivoire, Mali
Period	N/A
Date	N/A
Culture	Senufo

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	Under Review
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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