Kpelie Mask, between 1875 and 1900

  • Senufo, African

Wood

  • Overall: 17 1/4 × 7 3/4 × 4 1/4 inches (43.8 × 19.7 × 10.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Joseph H. Boyer Memorial Fund, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, General Endowment Fund, New Endowment Fund, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, K. T. Keller Fund, Laura H. Murphy Fund, Mary Martin Semmes Fund and Barbara L. Scripps Fund

80.18

Harry A. Franklin Gallery (Woodland Hills, California, USA)

1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 12. Goldwater, R. Senufo Sculpture from West Africa. New York, 1964, p. 15. Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): p. 170 (ill.).

Senufo, African, Kpelie Mask, between 1875 and 1900, wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Joseph H. Boyer Memorial Fund, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, et al., 80.18.