Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Kru Mask
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Kru Mask
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Image View:
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Overall view from front right
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Creator:
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unknown (Ivorian sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (Paris, Île-de-France, France) 73.1967.1.7 D
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Location Note:
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From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
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Date:
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late 19th-early 20th C. (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Ivorian; West African (general)
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Style Period:
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Kru
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Work Type 1:
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ceremonial mask
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Work Type 2:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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wood; vegetable fibers
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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80 cm (height) x 22 cm (width) x 23 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; Guinea Coast; ceremony; ceremonial; dance
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Description:
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The Kru or Kroo are a West African ethnic group who originated in eastern Liberia and migrated and settled along various points of the West African coast, notably Freetown, Sierra Leone, but also the Ivorian and Nigerian coasts. Mask consisting of a high, flat face in which the nasal ridge, the mouth and two rows of six cylindrical eyes on either side of the nose project in relief. Both the wood and the fibers have been blackened. This is a dance mask. (Source: Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac [website]; http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-AFRICAN-FAFFM-MKA-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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