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Mask

20th century

Wood, pigment, cloth, bottle tops, human hair, and fibers

32 x 26 x 12 1/2 in. (81.3 x 66 x 31.8 cm)

Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

81.17.1227

Provenance: Collection of Daniel Brody; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1973; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 5 - Sept. 22, 1974). Text by Robert Farris Thompson. No cat. no., p. 125, reproduced fig. L-1 (with no title).

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