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Shea butter container
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Shea butter container

Maker Baule
Object number81.17.240
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. 57, reproduced pl. 69.. New York, New York, The Center for African Art, Perspectives: Angles on African Art, Sept. 9, 1987 - Jan. 3, 1988 (Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 27 - Apr. 26, 1987; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, Jan. 31 - Mar. 27, 1988).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions8 9/16 in. (21.8 cm) Diam.: 3 15/16 in.
MediumWood
Covered Shea butter container
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