Mende Helmet Mask, Sierra Leonesoweii Wood, black pigment with raffia attachment Height 16in (40.5cm) Provenance Charles D. Miller, III, St. James, New York, collected in the 1970s Published Gottschalk, B., Bundu, Busch-Teufel im Land der Mende, Düsseldorf, 1990, field photograph on p. 37 and sowei mask on p. 143 with similar crown and parasol. See also text on p. 138 about the significance of European hats and crowns on top of sowei masks; Scheinberg, A. and Jefferson, K., She. Images of the Woman in Black African Art, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, 1983, p. 13; Mato, Daniel and Charles Miller, III, Sande: Masks and Statues from Liberia and Sierra-Leone, Gallery Balolu, Amsterdam, 1990, p. 126 - 127 Exhibited She. Images of the Woman in Black African Art, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, New York, 1 November - 3 December 1983 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, 1995 (Loan Tag No. L.20.1995.8 included)
Mende Helmet Mask, Sierra Leonesoweii Wood, black pigment with raffia attachment Height 16in (40.5cm) Provenance Charles D. Miller, III, St. James, New York, collected in the 1970s Published Gottschalk, B., Bundu, Busch-Teufel im Land der Mende, Düsseldorf, 1990, field photograph on p. 37 and sowei mask on p. 143 with similar crown and parasol. See also text on p. 138 about the significance of European hats and crowns on top of sowei masks; Scheinberg, A. and Jefferson, K., She. Images of the Woman in Black African Art, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, 1983, p. 13; Mato, Daniel and Charles Miller, III, Sande: Masks and Statues from Liberia and Sierra-Leone, Gallery Balolu, Amsterdam, 1990, p. 126 - 127 Exhibited She. Images of the Woman in Black African Art, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, New York, 1 November - 3 December 1983 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, 1995 (Loan Tag No. L.20.1995.8 included)
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