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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
Photo: Paul Macapia
Nigerian
19th century
Object number: 81.17.594
Seated mother and child
Dan
Object number: 68.71
Photo: Paul Macapia
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.838
iocolor
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.905
Mother and Child
Ivorian
Object number: 81.17.234
Photo: Paul Macapia
Nana Osei Bonsu
Object number: 81.17.323
Mother and Child Figure
Akan
Object number: 81.17.324
Mother and child
Urhobo
Object number: 81.17.576
Dahomey
late 19th - early 20th century
Object number: 72.29
Great mother mask (Iyanla)
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.586
Photo: Paul Macapia
Nigerian
Object number: 68.26