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Verandah post (Opo)
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Verandah post (Opo)

Object number81.17.625
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., p. 102, reproduced pl. 139 (as housepost). Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Feb. 7 - May 19, 2002. [Exhibition traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Cincinnati Art Museum, and Frist Center for Visual Arts, but object not included.] Text by Pamela McClusky. No cat. no., pp. 58-59, reproduced pl. 34 (as Housepost (opo)).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions43 5/16 in. (110 cm)
MediumWood
Verandah post (Opo)
Yoruba
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Photo: Paul Macapia
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late 19th-early 20th century
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Photo: Scott Leen
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