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Zamble mask
Zamble mask

Zamble mask

Object number81.17.254
ProvenanceCollection of {Bramwell Ford?}, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1968; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
Exhibition HistoryCleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection, July 10 - Sept. 1, 1968 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Oct. 10 - Dec. 1, 1968). Text by William Fagg. Cat. no. 73a (as Antelope Mask). Los 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. 138, reproduced fig. G-5 (as mask).Published ReferencesMcClusky, Pamela. African Art: From Crocodiles to Convertibles in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1987; cat. no. 10, pp. 20-21, reproduced (as Mask (Zamle)).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions16 9/16 x 5 1/8 x 4 3/4 in. (42 x 13 x 12 cm)
MediumWood and pigment
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Photo: Susan Cole
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