Mask

Original Language TitleBundu

CultureMende

MediumWood

DimensionsOverall: 14 × 10 × 13 inches (35.56 × 25.4 × 33.02 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Tranin Family from the collection of Donald H. Tranin

Object number2013.47.48

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

African Art

Terms

Provenance

With Wahshigalo Nouhoun, Mali, by 1993;

Purchased from Wahshigalo Nouhoun by Charles Jones African Art, Wilmington, NC, 1993-at least Autumn 1994 [1];

Purchased from Charles Jones African Art by David Joyner Haynes (1939-2013), Waynesville, NC, after Autumn 1994 [2];

Purchased from Haynes by Charles Jones African Art, by July 2000;

Purchased from Charles Jones African Art by Donald (1927-2007) and Sally (1930-2017) Tranin, no. 211, Kansas City, MO, July 15, 2000;

By descent to their son, Ed Tranin, Leawood, KS, and their daughter, Laura Tranin, Seattle, WA, by 2013;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.

NOTES:

[1] According to Charles Jones, in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, Specialist, Provenance, September 1, 2021, NAMA curatorial files. This mask was illustrated in an advertisement for Charles Jones African Art in African Arts 27, no. 4 (Autumn 1994), 19.

[2] According to Charles Jones, in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, February 5, 2022, NAMA curatorial files.

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