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Spoon/pestle
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Spoon/pestle

Maker Akan
Object number81.17.332
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. 11, reproduced pl. 13 (as spoon).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions5 x 3 1/4 in. (12.7 x 8.3 cm) L.: 16 3/8 in.
MediumWood
Ndengese
Object number: 2001.201
Gold dust spoon
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.341
Stool ("Mma'Gwa")
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.337
Photo: Paul Macapia
Ghanaian
20th century
Object number: 81.17.338
Photo: Paul Macapia
Ghanaian
after 1957
Object number: 81.17.545
Female Comb
Ghanaian
ca. 19th century
Object number: 2001.1060
Photo: Paul Macapia
Dan
Object number: 81.17.204
Turkana
Object number: 81.17.1099