Mask

Original Language TitleSirige

CultureDogon peoples

MediumWood, pigments, metal, and fiber

DimensionsOverall: 102 × 10 × 6 1/2 inches (259.08 × 25.4 × 16.51 cm)

Credit LineGift of Richard and Karen Fulton

Object number2012.22.A,B

On View

Not on view

Gallery Location

Collections

African Art

Terms

Provenance

With an unknown dealer, Liberia, 1966;

Purchased from the unknown dealer by Richard and Karen Fulton, Maryville, MO, 1966-2012 [1];

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2012.

NOTES:

[1] According to Nii Quarcoopome, Curator, documentation of a conversation with the donor, NAMA curatorial files, Richard Fulton acquired this mask in 1966 on the advice of Bill Siegmann, former Curator of African Art, Brooklyn Museum, while they were both working in Liberia.

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