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Headrest
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Headrest

Maker Zulu
Object number81.17.1271
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., pp. 84-85, reproduced pl. 113 (as head-rest). Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Elegant Plain Art: Art from the Shaker World and Beyond, July 7, 1999 - Feb. 1, 2001.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions5 1/4 x 2 1/16 x 11 15/16 in. (13.3 x 5.2 x 30.3 cm)
MediumWood
South African
Object number: 81.17.1269
Staff
South African
Object number: 81.17.1270
South African
Object number: 81.17.1275
Club
South African
Object number: 81.17.1272
South African
Object number: 81.17.1277
Photo: Paul Macapia
South African
20th century
Object number: 81.17.1285
Kaross (skin cloak)
South African
prior to 1892
Object number: 97.53
Photo: Scott Leen
South African
Object number: 2020.17.1
Photo: Scott Leen
South African
Object number: 2020.17.2