Buffalo Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Buffalo Mask: Medium wood mask with open, triangular crocodile jaws, completely encircled buffalo horns, and pigment fragments; rolled fabric around base.
Buffalo Mask

Medium wood mask with open, triangular crocodile jaws, completely encircled buffalo horns, and pigment fragments; rolled fabric around base.

Name/Title

Buffalo Mask

Entry/Object ID

2011.C-D.024

Description

Medium wood mask with open, triangular crocodile jaws, completely encircled buffalo horns, and pigment fragments; rolled fabric around base.

Use

Ritual

Context

Circumcision, initiation of chiefs, and funerals

Collection

Jonathan A. Campbell & Tanya G. Dowdey African Art Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Chamba People

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Sculptor

Date made

circa 1950

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Cameroon

Continent

Africa

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Cameroon

Continent

Africa

Culture/Tribe

Chamba People

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

mask

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

16-1/2 in

Width

11 in

Material

Wood, pigment