ClassificationsAfrican Art
Do Muso Mask
Place CreatedCôte d'Ivoire, Africa
CultureDyula
Datelate 18th-late 19th Century
MediumPewter, brass, copper
Credit LineGift of Charles S. Ackerman and Joanne McGill-Ackerman
Object number2017.032.125
Exhibition HistoryThe Sculpture of Negro Africa, Art Center of La Jolla, La Jolla, California, May 1960 - March 1961The Art of Black Africa: Collection of Jay C. Leff, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1969 - January 18, 1970
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, November 19, 2007 - December 1, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, August 6, 2016 - Present
Published ReferencesPaul Wingert, The Sculpture of Negro Africa (La Jolla: Art Center, 1960), cover image; number 32.
MCCM Newsletter, March-May 2008.
ProvenanceEx coll. Jay C. Leff (1924-2000), Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Ex coll. Charles S. Ackerman (1933-2017), Atlanta, Georgia, purchased at Sotheby's New York, November 14, 2003, lot 39.
Status
On viewCollections
- African Art
late 19th-early 20th Century
ca. 1940
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