Provenance: [Gallery 43, London, England]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1972; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
Not currently on view
Resources
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. 123, reproduced fig. H-6 (as mask).
Los Angeles, California, Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos, Oct. 1984 - Feb. 1986 (Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Jul 1 - Oct 1, 1985; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, Jan. 5 - Mar. 2, 1986; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Apr. 10 - June 15, 1986). Text by Herbert M. Cole and Chike C. Aniakor. No cat. no., reproduced p. 118, fig. 221.
Bellingham, Washington, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Masks: Facing the World, July 30 - Nov. 8, 1987.
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