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Mask

Date20th century
Object number81.17.1227
ProvenanceCollection of Daniel Brody; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1973; 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 fig. L-1 (with no title).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions32 x 26 x 12 1/2 in. (81.3 x 66 x 31.8 cm)
MediumWood, pigment, cloth, bottle tops, human hair, and fibers
Mudpack coiffure (emedot)
20th century
Object number: 81.17.986
Photo: Paul Macapia
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1492
Object number: 81.17.1222
Photo: Scott Leen
Kom
Object number: 91.252
Mask (Lukwakongo type)
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.861
Helmet Mask
Tanzanian
early 20th century
Object number: 2004.103
Mask (Lipiko)
Object number: 81.17.1220
Mask with pelele
ca. 1900 - 10
Object number: 2001.1079