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Face Mask
Face Mask

Face Mask

Artist Unidentified
1900-1920
Object PlaceTanzania
Medium/TechniqueWood, hair and pigment
Dimensions26.7 x 27.3 x 12.4 cm (10 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William E. Teel
Accession number2014.241
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMasks
ProvenanceAbout 1900-1925, said to have been collected in Tanzania and taken to Europe by a British missionary. 1996, with Sonnabend Gallery, New York. May 30, 1997, sold by Marc Leo Felix (dealer), Brussels, to William Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)
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