Serpent Headdress
late 1800s–early 1900s
Maker Unknown
African Art
Serpent Headdress, late 1800s–early 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Guinea, possibly Baga-style maker. Wood (Nauclea pobeguinii) and paint; overall: 148 cm (58 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1960.37
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Mask
- Formatted Medium
- Wood (Nauclea pobeguinii) and paint
- Medium
- wood, nauclea, pobeguinii, paint
- Dimensions
- Overall: 148 cm (58 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- African Art
- Accession Number
- 1960.37
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty, Landscape, The Imagination of Primitive Man, Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture, Images of the Mind, CMA 1960: "Year in Review," Bulletin XLVII (December 1960), p. 250, no. 13, repr. p. 234.<br>Kansas City, MO: The Imagination of Primitive Man, January 3-March 14, 1962, no. 18.<br>CMA 1975: Traditions and Revisions, no. 117.<br>CMA 1987: Images of the Mind, July 7-August 23, 1987, repr. p. 22,
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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