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Mask with Horse Hair (Hanging)

A work made of linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; embellished with knotted grass fringe, stone and shell beads, and metal foil rectangles secured by knotted lengths of linen threads; suspended from knotted main warp; bottom edged with main warp cut fringe knotted with horsehair.
© Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

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  • A work made of linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; embellished with knotted grass fringe, stone and shell beads, and metal foil rectangles secured by knotted lengths of linen threads; suspended from knotted main warp; bottom edged with main warp cut fringe knotted with horsehair.

Date:

c. 1967

Artist:

Lenore Tawney (American, 1907–2007)
United States, New York, New York City

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Lenore Tawney

Title

Mask with Horse Hair (Hanging)

Place

New York City (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1957–1977

Medium

Linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; embellished with knotted grass fringe, stone and shell beads, and metal foil rectangles secured by knotted lengths of linen threads; suspended from knotted main warp; bottom edged with main warp cut fringe knotted with horsehair

Dimensions

89.7 × 33.3 cm (35 1/4 × 13 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Tiffany Blake

Reference Number

1969.108

Copyright

© Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

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