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Object number81.17.90
Provenance[Ed Shaw]; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1968; 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. 135-6, reproduced pl. 175.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions25 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. (64.7 x 36.8 x 3.2 cm) Overall h.: 32 in. Overall w.: 19 in.
MediumWood, fiber, and pigment
Serpent mask
Burkina Faso
Object number: 81.17.86
Maravi
20th century
Object number: 81.17.1227
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1457
Photo: Susan Cole
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1469
Lion Mask
Malian
1850-1980
Object number: 81.17.20
Gela Mask (The Ancient One)
Wee
Object number: 81.17.193
Mask
Liberian
late 19th-early 20th century
Object number: 81.17.192
Mask
Idoma
Object number: 81.17.521
Photo: Susan Cole
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.539
Mask
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.513
Suah Buah (large dance) mask
Mambila
Object number: 81.17.707