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Ogbodo Enyi (Spirit Elephant)

Object number81.17.682

ProvenanceAcquired by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington (date and location unknown); bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981

Exhibition HistoryMuseum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles. Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos, October 1984-February 1986 (Washington, DC, National Museum of African Art, Jul 1 - Oct 1, 1985; Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, Jan 5 - Mar 2, 1986; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum, Apr 10 - Jun 15, 1986). Text by Herbert M. Cole and Chike C. Aniakor. Reproduced p.155, illus. 270. Bellingham, Washington, The Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Masks: Facing the World, July 30 - November 8, 1987Published ReferencesBamert, Arnold, Ibo-Izi Mask, in Africa: Tribal Art of Forest and Savanna, Thames and Hudson, New York, 1980, reproduced p. 99. Muensterbeger, Werner, Universality of Tribal Art, in Barbier-Muller Collection Geneva, 1979, p. 60-61. Nunley, John, Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos, in African Arts, Vol.19 No. 3, May 1985, p. 96-98. Ottenberg, Simon, Igbo and Yoruba Art Contrasted, in African Arts, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Feb., 1983), pp. 48-55, 97-98, reproduced p. 53 (7). Robbins, Warren M. and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989; no. 686. Ross, Doran H. ed. Visions of Africa: The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Art at UCLA, Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Oakland: University of California Press; pp. 92-93, reproduced fig. 49, as Ogbodo Enyi Headdress, Igbo, Nigeria. Schaedler, Karl-Ferdinand, Gods Spirits Ancestors: African sculpture from provate German collections, Panterra, p.134, reproduced p. 102. Seligman, Thomas and Kathleen Berrin, Elephant Mask, The Bay Area Collectors: Art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, The Fine Arts Museums of SF, 1982, p. 35, reproduced p. 22.

Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

Dimensions11 1/8 x 9 3/4 x 22 15/16 in. (28.2 x 24.8 x 58.3 cm)

MediumWood, pigment, and twine