Skip to main content
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 1
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 2
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 3
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 4
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 5
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 6
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 7
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 8
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 9
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 10
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 11
Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu) - Image 12

Unidentified and Kuba

Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu)

Kuba, 1869-1929

Thumbnail 1
Thumbnail 2
Thumbnail 3
Thumbnail 4
Thumbnail 5
Thumbnail 6
Thumbnail 7
Thumbnail 8
Thumbnail 9
Thumbnail 10
Thumbnail 11
Thumbnail 12
Scroll
  • Artist: Unidentified
  • Culture: Kuba

Warrior Mask (Ishyeen Imaalu)

Kuba, 1869-1929

Physical Qualities Wood, cloth, feathers, plant fibers, cowrie shells, paint, 15 3/4 x 11 x 5 1/2 in. (40 x 28 x 14 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of the Jamosil Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia
Object Number 1989.150
Pigments are white, black and yellow.
"Meditations on African Art: PATTERN," Mar 12, 2008-Aug 17, 2008, BMA, Karen Milbourne.

African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.93, ill.
Visona, "A History of Art in Africa." Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2008, p. 391, ill.
BMA. African Spirit Series brochure 2003-2004. ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.

Artist

Unidentified

2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00

Culture

Kuba

2000–2000

Meet Kuba

Explore the Collection Further

Shoowa and Unidentified
Prestige Cloth with Interlock Design
1899–1939
Kuba, Shoowa, and others
Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and "Double Knot" Design
1949–1968
Dehua kilns
Sleeve Vase with Incised Tree Peony Design and Animal Mask Handles
1700–1799
Kuba, Shoowa, and others
Prestige Cloth with Thick Pile and "Jagged Blocks" Design
1958–1986
Gerda Wegener
A Masked Ball
1921
Kuba, Shoowa, and others
Prestige Cloth
1958–1959
Purvis Young
Graveyard Warriors, Sad Day
1989–1994
Unidentified
"Henry II" Medal
1899–1959
Pende
Mask (Giwoyo)
1889–1919