Face Mask
Adiukru
1875–1925
- Medium
- Wood, pigment, and fur
- Dimensions
- 25.8 × 20.7 × 10.2 cm (10 1/8 × 8 1/8 × 4 in.)
- Genre
- masks
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
Furmasqueradesadiukruceremonial maskappliqué (technique)masksmasqueradewood (plant material)african Artarts of AfricaCoastal West Africacarvingfaces
About
Some of the masquerades that were popular across southern and central Côte d’Ivoire in the 19th and early 20th centuries have evolved and remain active today, but the small, flat masks of the various interrelated peoples of the southern Lagoon region have faded and grown obsolete. This is one of only three such masks housed in a museum collection. Animal fur (possibly monkey) stands in for hair and a beard while the circular mark on the forehead represents a shaved hairstyle.