Four-faced helmet mask
Maker
Ibibio
Object number81.17.518
Provenance[Tribal Arts, London, England]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1972; 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., pp. 187-8, reproduced figs. M-1, M-2 (as helmet mask).Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions18 9/16 x 14 5/16 x 12 7/8 in. (47.1 x 36.3 x 32.7 cm)
MediumWood, skin, nails, and polychrome
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