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Mask (Nkho Komba)
Image Not Available for Mask (Nkho Komba)

Mask (Nkho Komba)

Object number81.17.1226
ProvenanceCollection of Daniel Brody, Seattle, Washington; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1971; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
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 pl. 159 (as "nkho komba" mask).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions22 1/16 x 12 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (56 x 31.8 x 11.4 cm)
MediumWood, human hair, buttons, pigment, cloth, fiber, webbing, and cord
Maravi
20th century
Object number: 81.17.1227
Native American
ca. 1780
Object number: 91.1.72
Zulu
Object number: 81.17.1284
Photo: Scott Leen
Bamenda, Tikar
Object number: 91.252
Makonde
Object number: 81.17.1222
Joe David (Nuu-cha-nulth, Dididaht, born 1946)
ca.1974
Object number: 2024.19.218
Gela Mask (The Ancient One)
Wee
Object number: 81.17.193
Helmet Mask
Makonde
early 20th century
Object number: 2004.103
Mask (Lipiko)
Makonde
Object number: 81.17.1220
Mask with pelele
Makonde
ca. 1900 - 10
Object number: 2001.1079
Masks (Lipiko)
Makonde
20th century
Object number: 2004.106