Mask ("N'Doma")

Object number81.17.230

Provenance[J. J. Klejman Gallery, 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. 126, reproduced pl. 162 (as mask).

Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

Dimensions13 1/8 x 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (33.4 x 18.4 x 13.3 cm)

MediumWood, metal, and pigment