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Elephant Mask

Elephant Mask

Cloth, fiber, and glass beads
19 3/4 x 19 15/16 x 1 3/4 in. (50.2 x 50.7 x 4.5 cm)
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.693
Provenance: [Charles Ratton, Paris, France]; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1972; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
location
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., p. 123, reproduced fig. H-8 (with no title).

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