Unidentified and Kuba
Royal Man’s Mask (Mukenga)
Kuba, 1969-1978
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Raffia, cowrie shells, glass beads, wood, feathers, 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Friends of the Arts of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, and Amy Gould and Matthew Polk, Gibson Island, Maryland
Object Number
2013.363
Mask with projection curving upwards from the top of the head and raffia ruff around the base. The face is formed from beaded portions on cloth; the remainder of the mask is covered in cowrie shells and passages of beadwork.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2013; Richard L. Lee, Washington
African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
"Global Stores." BMA Today, no. 166, fall 2021: p. 25.
On View at the BMA
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