Epa Cult Mask, between 1920 and 1930

  • Bamigboye of Odo-Owa, Yoruba, African, 1885 - 1978

Wood

  • Overall (by sight): 51 × 19 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (129.5 × 49.5 × 52.1 cm) Mount (by sight; footprint of mount): 14 × 14 inches (35.6 × 35.6 cm) Overall (without mount; by sight): 48 × 19 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (121.9 × 49.5 × 52.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Friends of African Art Fund

77.71

African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London, 1995, cat. no. 27. Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 5 (1978): 307, fig. 28. “Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News, April 14, 1985, 6 (ill.). 100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 70–71 (ill.). Green, James. Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, pp. 63-65, (fig. 36 ill. front [p. 64] and back [p. 65]), p. 223.

Attributed to Bamigboye of Odo-Owa, Epa Cult Mask, between 1920 and 1930, Wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of African Art Fund, 77.71.