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Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun)
Yoruba · Late 19th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Robert Stolper, London, by 1976; sold to the Art Institute, 1976.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Ill., The Columbia College Art Gallery, Columbia College, "Body Art in Africa" Feb. 16, 1998- Apr. 11, 1998.
Literature
Published references
- John Nunley, Moving with the Face of the Devil: Art and Politics in Urban West Africa (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), fig. 34.
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