vabo mask, unrecorded Mumuye artist

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unrecorded Mumuye artist, vabo mask
unrecorded Mumuye artist, vabo mask
unrecorded Mumuye artist
vabo mask
late 1800s
vabo mask, late 1800s
Where object was made: Adamawa, Nigeria
Material/technique: pigment; wood; braiding; carving; raffia
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 165 x 57 x 42 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 64 15/16 x 22 7/16 x 16 9/16 in
Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. Kenneth Palmer
Accession number: 2007.3170
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "For Life's Sake: Arts from Africa," Oct-1983, Reinhild Kauenhoven Janzen "Spirits--in the form of masks--are brought into the human community to placate or combat forces which threaten human existence the most: witches, epidemic, drought and other crop-destroying atcs of nature. In these images men invent strong forms for strong purposes, and thereby forge a dynamic link between meaning and form, between idea and its expression in art." (Herbert M. Cole)