Unidentified artist from Africa. Mask, undated, used as frontpiece for Black Ritual (Obeah), ballet choreographed by Agnes de Mille, music by Darius Milhaud

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters (JWJ MSS 1050) > Series IV: Photographs > Color Slides > Artwork > Unidentified artist from Africa. Mask, undated, used as frontpiece for Black Ritual (Obeah), ballet choreographed by Agnes de Mille, music by Darius Milhaud

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Description

Title: Unidentified artist from Africa. Mask, undated, used as frontpiece for Black Ritual (Obeah), ballet choreographed by Agnes de Mille, music by Darius Milhaud
Creator: From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created: 1953 August 12
Description: Slide number 453. Image set number XXXVIc. Manuscript inscription identifies the work as Dark Ritual.
Provenance: Gift of Carl Van Vechten and Fania Marinoff, 1941-1971.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 1050

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Container / Volume

Box 223

Access: Public
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Citation: Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.