Mask
Maker
Hwela/Kulango
Object number81.17.229
Provenance[Stolper Galleries, New York]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1962; 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. 123, reproduced fig. K-6 (as "aban" mask).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions30 5/16 x 10 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (77 x 26 x 25.1 cm)
MediumWood and metal