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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
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Ibibio
Object number: 81.17.511
Mask
Ibibio
Object number: 81.17.512
Four-faced helmet mask
Ibibio
Object number: 81.17.518
Female figure
Ibibio
Object number: 81.17.516
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1456
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1457
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1462
Photo: Susan Cole
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1469
Mask (Ntomo society)
Bamana
19th-20th century
Object number: 81.17.16
Mask
Bamana
19th-20th century
Object number: 81.17.19