Object Details
- Description
- Wood crest mask in the form of a pangolin on a wood cap. Animal's scales are individually carved and inserted pegs. Bare face is painted white with one red stripe acroos body.
- Provenance
- Senator Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, San Francisco, before 1966-1992
- Wynne Hayakawa, San Francisco, 1992-1996
- The Robbins Center, Washington, D.C., 1996-2014
- Exhibition History
- Artful Animals, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., July 1, 2009-July 25, 2010
- Animals in African Art, The Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, 1999-2000
- Published References
- African Art in American Collections, Robbins (1966) fig. 200; pg. 160
- African Arts Vol. 21 no. 2 ( Feburary 1988) pg. 46-53 & 94 by John Picton, pub. UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center.
- #200
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Ekpeye artist
- Igbo artist
- Date
- Mid-20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communication in memory of Warren M. Robbins
- Medium
- Wood, pigment
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 22.9 × 113 × 24.1 cm (9 × 44 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Mask
