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Headdress (Egungun)
Headdress (Egungun)

Headdress (Egungun)

Object number81.17.581
Provenance[Emil Storrer, Zürich, Switzerland]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1972; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions9 x 8 1/4 x 11 11/16 in. (22.9 x 21 x 29.7 cm)
MediumWood and pigment
Headdress (Ekine Society)
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.530
Headdress (Egungun Olode)
Yoruba
Object number: 81.17.591
Photo: Paul Macapia
Nigerian/Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.507
Headdress (Okeneken)
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.531
Nigerian
late 19th-early 20th century
Object number: 81.17.618
Headdress (Nwanza)
Igbo
Object number: 81.17.522
Headdress
Yoruba
Object number: 81.17.582
Headdress
Kuyu
Object number: 81.17.794
Antelope Headdress
Kurumba
20th century
Object number: SC87.114