Mask with blue convertible
Date20th century
Maker
Sabu bi Boti
Cote d'Ivoire, Guro
Maker
Guro, Cote d'Ivoire
Object number81.17.256
Provenance[Craft Caravan, New York]; purchased from store by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1975; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
Exhibition HistoryWashington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, The Stranger Among Us, Mar. - Sept. 1982.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Museum: Mixed Metaphors, Fred Wilson, Jan. 28 - June 13, 1993.
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present, Apr. 11 - Aug. 8, 2010 (Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Sept. 25, 2010 - Jan. 9, 2011).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 with president).Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions20 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (52 x 15 x 15 cm)
MediumWood, paint, and fiber
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