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Male figure
Male figure

Male figure

Object number81.17.615
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. 24-25, reproduced pl. 30 (as standing male in western dress).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions15 15/16 x 7 1/16 x 7 3/4 in. (40.5 x 17.9 x 19.7 cm)
MediumWood and pigment
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Tanzanian
20th century
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Male figure
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Male figure
Object number: 81.17.717
Male figure
Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.714.2
Photo: Paul Macapia
Southwestern Yoruba
early 20th century
Object number: 81.17.585
Photo: Paul Macapia
Object number: 81.17.583
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1461
Kamangabbi figure
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Object number: 81.17.1463
Initiation figure
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Object number: 81.17.1499
Figure (Tadep)
Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.712