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Mother and child
Mother and child

Mother and child

Object number81.17.605
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. 72-73, reproduced pl. 101 (as seated mother and child).Published ReferencesJoice, Gail, Michael Knight, and Pamela McClusky, Ivories in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1987, no. 16, pp. 22-23
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions5 11/16 x 1 3/4 x 2 5/16 in. (14.5 x 4.5 x 5.9 cm)
MediumIvory
Seated mother and child
Seated mother and child
Dan
Object number: 68.71
Photo: Paul Macapia
Mother and child
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.838
iocolor
Mother and child
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.905
Mother and Child
Mother and Child
Object number: 81.17.234
Photo: Paul Macapia
Mother and Child
Object number: 81.17.323
Mother and Child Figure
Mother and Child Figure
Object number: 81.17.324
Mother and child
Mother and child
Object number: 81.17.576
Photo: Paul Macapia
Mother and child for Sango
19th century
Object number: 81.17.594
Image Not Available for Standing Mother and Child
Standing Mother and Child
late 19th - early 20th century
Object number: 72.29
Image Not Available for Mother and child
Mother and child
ca. 1800
Object number: 67.92
Photo: Paul Macapia
Belt mask of Iyoba (Mother of the Oba) Idia
Benin Kingdom
ca. 1517-50
Object number: 81.17.493
Photo: Paul Macapia
Gold weight: mother and child
Object number: 81.17.382