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Head ("Nomoli")
Head ("Nomoli")

Head ("Nomoli")

Object number81.17.188
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. 129-30, reproduced pl. 167 (as "nomoli" head).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions4 x 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (10.2 x 11.4 x 14 cm)
MediumSoapstone
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Tony Angell
ca. 1973
Object number: 2009.52.2
Man and Animal
Dudley Pratt
1935
Object number: 44.627
Lohan, seated
16th-17th century
Object number: 54.175
Palette:  Two Birds
Egyptian
Object number: 61.70
two views
1736-1795
Object number: 33.1008
Funerary Head (Memorial Head of a Priestess)
Ghanaian
early - mid 19th century
Object number: 66.68
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Democratic Republic of the Congo
20th century
Object number: 2014.30.2