Mask with horn
Maker
Ogoni
Maker
Nigerian
Object number81.17.533
Provenance[Galerie Simone de Monbrison, Paris, France]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1971; 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. 138, reproduced fig. G-4 (as mask).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions9 13/16 x 7 3/16 x 6 3/4 in. (25 x 18.2 x 17.2 cm)
MediumWood and fiber