Night Society Mask

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Night Society Mask

Artist Bangwa Peoples (African)

Place of OriginCameroon, Bangwa, Grasslands

Date19th-mid 20th century

Dimensions16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm)

Mediumcarved wood with mud patination

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1970.19

Not on View

Published References

"African Art," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 16, no. 2, 1973, p. 39, repr. fig. 11.

Roberts, Mary Nooter, Facing Africa: The African Art Collection of the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1998, pp. 26-27, repr. (b/w.).

Comparative ReferencesSee also Breeskin, Adelyn D., The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of African Sculpture, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1954, fig. 20, p. 20.

cf. Leuzinger, Elsy, Africa, the Art of the Negro Peoples, New YOrk, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1960, p. 149, pl. 36.

cf. Robbins, Warren M., African Tribal Images, The Katherine White Reswick Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, no. 177, ill.

cf. Bascom, William, editor, The Art of Black Africa, the Collection of Jay C. Leff, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, 1969, no. 231, 234 (a stool with similar surface and conception to TMA mask; it is from the Cameroon Bamileke Group)

cf. Brain, Robert and Adam Pollock, Bangwa Funerary Sculpture, London, Duckworth and Company, Ltd., 1971, ill. p. 137.