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Maker Kom
Object number81.17.695
Provenance[Thomas Alexander, St. Louis, Missouri]; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1975; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions11 3/8 x 10 13/16 x 11 3/16 in. (28.9 x 27.5 x 28.4 cm)
MediumWood, incrustations of natural substances, raffia, and twine
Great mother mask (Iyanla)
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.586
Photo: Paul Macapia
Cameroonian
19th century
Object number: 81.17.718
Female figure
Suku
Object number: 81.17.910
Photo: Paul Macapia
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.869
Suah Buah (Large Dance) Mask with costume
Mambila
Object number: 81.17.706
Bird mask
Kom
Object number: 81.17.694
Mask
Kom
20th century
Object number: 2001.1057
Kom/Bobe Ahia
before 1932
Object number: 81.17.705
Retainer Figure
Kom
20th century
Object number: 81.17.719
Totemic mask
Melanesian
ca. 19th - early 20th century
Object number: 70.122
Mask
Liberian
late 19th-early 20th century
Object number: 81.17.192