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Female figure
Female figure

Female figure

Object number81.17.516
Provenance[Julius Carlebach Gallery, New York]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1961; 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., pp. 14-15, reproduced pl. 16. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Praise Poems: The Katherine White Collection, July 29 - Sept. 29, 1984 (Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 31, 1984 - Feb. 25, 1985; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Apr. 6 - May 19, 1985; Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, Sept. 7 - Nov. 25, 1985; Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mar. 8 - Apr. 20, 1986). Text by Pamela McClusky. Cat. no. 21, pp. 50-51, reproduced.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions19 5/8 x 4 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (49.8 x 12.4 x 16.8 cm)
MediumWood and pigment
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Congolese
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Photo: Paul Macapia
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Female figure
Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.714.1
Female "portrait" bust
Object number: 68.58
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1461
Kamangabbi figure
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1463
Initiation figure
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1499
Figure (Tadep)
Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.712
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Tanzanian
20th century
Object number: 2012.29.21