Gelede Mask

Artist:Yorùbá

Medium: Wood, pigment

Geograhical Locations:

• Nigeria

Dates:late 19th or early 20th century

Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 x 12 in. (29.8 x 23.5 x 30.5 cm)

Collections:

• Arts of Africa

Exhibitions:

• Passages: Photographs in Africa by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher
• African Innovations
• Double Take: African Innovations

Accession Number: 22.227

Image: 22.227_PS2.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Mask with large elaborate headtie painted in many layers of yellow, blue, red, green, brown, and black. Nostrils pierced for wearer to see through. Condition is fair. Paint raised and cracked.

Brooklyn Museum