Artist
Unknown African
CultureBamileke peoples
Titles
- Elephant Mask
Date1900–1950
PlaceCameroon, Africa
MediumCotton cloth, flannel, glass beads, raffia cloth, indigo dye, and cane (?)
DimensionsOverall: 55 1/2 × 24 7/8 × 7 3/4 in. (140.9 × 63.2 × 19.7 cm)
Overall (including stand): 56 3/4 × 24 7/8 × 7 3/4 in. (144.1 × 63.2 × 19.7 cm)
Overall (including stand): 56 3/4 × 24 7/8 × 7 3/4 in. (144.1 × 63.2 × 19.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc. and the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number97.341
Not on view
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Department
African ArtObject Type
Exhibition HistoryDisplayed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,Caroline Wiess Law Building in the Large Sterling Gallery, November 4, 1998-September 1999. Permanent Collection Installation.
Exhibited in "Masks: Faces of Culture," at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, October 8, 1999 to January 2, 2000; the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, February 19 to May 14, 2000; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 25 to September 17, 2000. Exhibition organized by the Saint Louis Art Museum. (LN:99.5)
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Unknown African
1900–1950
Raffia cloth, glass beads, cowry shells, raffia, wood, and paint
73.89
Unknown African
1900–1940
Glass and jasper beads, cotton cloth, raffia cloth, cane, and iron
98.240
Unknown African
1875–1925
Ivory, iron, glass beads, brass bells, cotton cloth, wood, and cane
91.1551
Unknown African
1900–1940
Wood, silver, copper, iron, cotton cloth, glass beads, and paint
91.1452
Unknown African
1900–1950
Wood, glass beads, cotton cloth, coconut shell beads, and traces of indigo and tukula
91.1447.A-.C
Unknown African
1925–1950
Raffia, cane, other plant fibers, feathers, paint, and twine
91.1923
Unknown African
c. 1900
Raffia, cotton cloth, cowry shells, and glass beads
2022.110
Unknown African
1940–1960
Wood, cowry shells, cotton cloth, sacrificial matter, plastic beads, nails, and traces of indigo
97.811.A,.B
Unknown African
1895–1905
Raffia, cotton cloth, cowry shells, glass beads, and brass bells
92.451
Unknown North American
1900–1945
Painted wood, leather, cloth, feathers, evergreen twigs, beads, string
44.415
Unknown African
1865–1935
Wood, kaolin, paint, wire, cotton string, and trade cloth
90.401