Kongo Maternity Figure
Kongo artist · mid-19th to early 20th century
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Helmet Mask Four Faces
Gola artist · Late 19th–early 20th century
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Object record
Helmet Mask Four Faces
- Maker
- Gola artist
- Date
- Late 19th–early 20th century
- Place
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Material
- Wood, pigment
- Dimensions
- 35.6 × 22 × 21 cm
- Current collection
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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This helmet mask has four faces and no single back. Each quarter turn presents a different face, making the work legible from multiple directions.
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- Maker
- Gola artist
- Date
- Late 19th–early 20th century
- Place
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Material
- Wood, pigment
- Dimensions
- 35.6 × 22 × 21 cm
- Current collection
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Source
- The Met ↗
Related exhibitions
This work appears in
05The Work of the SurfaceView exhibition ↗Related works
