Mask

Arts of Africa

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Ibibio
Nigeria
Coastal West Africa

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Artist: Ibibio
Title: Mask
Place: Nigeria (Object made in)
Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 26.3 × 19.3 × 10.2 cm (10 3/4 × 7 5/8 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Wielgus
Reference Number: 1963.387
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Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 19, 1969–Feb. 8, 1970, cat. 73 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 19, 1969–Feb. 8, 1970, cat. 73 (ill.).
Chicago, Ill., Illinois Bell Telephone Co., Substitute Faces, Oct. 2–Oct. 23, 1971, no cat.
Portland Museum of Art, Tribal Art of West Africa, Sept. 16–Oct. 31, 1971.

Galerie Lemaire [Matthias Lemaire], Amsterdam, by 1963 [this and the following information according to Affinities of Form, 1996, p. 216]; sold to Raymond Wielgus (died 2010) and Laura Wielgus (died 2003), Chicago, Ill, by 1963; given to the Art Institute, 1963.

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