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Photo: Susan Cole
Mask
Photo: Susan Cole

Mask

Maker Ogoni
Object number81.17.539
Provenance[Le Véel, Paris, France]; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1971; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Cole
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. 136, reproduced fig. G-1. 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
Dimensions26 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (67.3 x 19 x 14.6 cm)
MediumWood, pigment, and fiber
Mask
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.513
Single-faced Crest mask
Nigerian/Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.508
Mask
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.523
Photo: Paul Macapia
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.583
Photo: Paul Macapia
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.590
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Nigerian
20th century
Object number: 2012.23
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Nigerian
early 20th century
Object number: 2014.30.4
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Nigerian
Object number: 2014.30.3
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1457