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Mother and child

Mother and child

Ivory
5 11/16 x 1 3/4 x 2 5/16 in. (14.5 x 4.5 x 5.9 cm)
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.605
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Not currently on view

Resources

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

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