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Face mask (polychrome wood)

IMAGE number
SMT1216946
Image title
Face mask (polychrome wood)
Artist
Tsogo culture / Gabonese
Location
National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
Medium
polychrome wood
Dimensions
32x21.3x8.5 cms
Image description

The striking contrast between the painted divisions and the underlying carved wood form is an aspect of African art that first entranced Western audiences. The Western lack of awareness of the forms and contexts of African art was such that when this face mask was exhibited in the 1950s in France, it was identified as coming from another part of Africa. Later research attributed this mask, from the Walt Disney–Tishman African Art Collection, to the Tsogo peoples of Gabon as part of a wider regional tradition of masks sharing this distinctive painted style.

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© Smithsonian Institution / Gift of Walt Disney World Co., a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
mask / face / african / anthropological ethnography / africa / ethnographic / artefact / artifact / artefacts / gabonese / anthropology / masks / artifacts / faces / gabon / tsogo
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Largest available format 4080 × 4909 px 5 MB
Dimension [pixels] Dimension in 300dpi [mm] File size [MB]
Large 4080 × 4909 px 345 × 416 mm 4.6 MB
Medium 851 × 1024 px 72 × 87 mm 984 KB

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