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Fiber Mask

CultureAsmat
Dateca. 1950
MediumFiber, pigment, seed beads, and cassowary feathers
DimensionsOverall (lying flat): 13 × 12 × 2 inches (33.02 × 30.48 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.116
On View
Not on view
DescriptionWoven mask that would cover the top of the head and face with openings for the eyes and mouth. Feathers dangle from both sides of the mask.Exhibition History
Reflections on Movement. The Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM. May 17, 2024-June 28, 2024.
Provenance

Collected by James Barker, by 2004;

Purchased from James Barker by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), Santa Fe, NM, March 28, 2004-2010;

His bequest to the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2010-2025

The Coe Center's gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.

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