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Object number81.17.510
Provenance[Berkeley Galleries, London, England]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1966; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
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. 124, reproduced fig. H-9. Bellingham, Washington, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Masks: Facing the World, July 30 - Nov. 8, 1987.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions7 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 2 7/8 in. (19.1 x 14.9 x 7.3 cm)
MediumWood and pigment
Mask: "Ekpo" Society
Ibibio
Object number: 81.17.59
Mask
Ibibio
Object number: 81.17.512
Four-faced helmet mask
Ibibio
Object number: 81.17.518
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Ibibio
Object number: 81.17.511
Female figure
Ibibio
Object number: 81.17.516
Photo: Paul Macapia
Yoruba
1920-40
Object number: 81.17.587
Photo: Scott Leen
Congolese
20th century
Object number: 2004.107
Mask
Wurkun
20th century
Object number: 97.62
Photo: Paul Macapia
Yoruba
Object number: 81.17.584
Single-faced Crest mask
Nigerian/Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.508
Female spirit mask (kpan)
Ivorian
Object number: 51.14