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Mask with blue convertible

20th century

Sabu bi Boti

Cote d'Ivoire, Guro

Guro, Cote d'Ivoire

Wood, paint, and fiber

20 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (52 x 15 x 15 cm)

Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

81.17.256

Provenance: [Craft Caravan, New York]; purchased from store by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1975; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981

Not currently on view

Resources

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).

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