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Egungun Masquerade Costume
Egungun Masquerade Costume

Egungun Masquerade Costume

Artist Yorùbá artist
Datecirca 1930–1950
Associated withAfrica
MediumCloth, wood, and buttons
Dimensionsheight: 68 in. (172.7 cm)
width: 54 in. (137.2 cm)
depth (variable; when "dressed" for display): 33 in. (83.8 cm)
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LinePurchased with funds provided through a bequest from Lucile E. Moorman
Object number97.5.3
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceAcquired by Eric Robertson in 1988 from a collector in Lome, Togo; sold to NCMA 1997.Published ReferencesRebecca Martin Nagy, entry for Egungun Costume, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 56, illus. (color); detail (color) 52.

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for Égungún Masquerade Costume, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 120, illus. (color) 121.
Exhibition HistoryWest Long Branch, NJ, Monmouth College, "Masks and Masquerades: Yoruba Ancestral Spirit Costumes from West Africa," February 8-28, 1991; New York, Baruch College Gallery, City University of New York, September 27-October 25, 1991.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Yoruba Art: A Living Tradition," October 23, 1993-June 12, 1994.

New York, NY, Museum for African Art, "Faces of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas," 1994 (did not travel to other venues of exhibition.)

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art. "Powers Concealed: Egúngúns from Africa and America," October 15, 2022-February 26, 2023.
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