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Vuvi Miniature Mask
- Culture
- Vuvi
- Origin
- Gabon
- Period
- Mid-20th century
- Object
- Mask
- Materials
- Wood, Kaolin
- Dimensions
- 17.8 × 10.2 cm
- Catalogue
- TRB-138
A simple and expressive miniature Vuvi mask, the slightly concave face thickly coated with white kaolin, with slit eyes, a long straight nose and a third slit for the mouth.
Provenance
Collection of Dr Juris and Ingrida Simanis, Lexington, Virginia; ex Thomas McNemar (1931–2020), Lexington, Virginia, who lived and collected in Central and West Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and ran galleries of African art in New York and San Francisco.Acquired
Hilliard & Co. · 2024
