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Bushcow mask
Bushcow mask

Bushcow mask

Object number81.17.702
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. 150, reproduced fig. K-8 (as mask).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions27 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (69.8 x 26.6 x 14 cm)
MediumWood and pigment
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1456
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1457
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1462
Photo: Susan Cole
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1469
Mask (Ntomo society)
Bamana
19th-20th century
Object number: 81.17.16
Mask
Bamana
19th-20th century
Object number: 81.17.19
Lion Mask
Bamana
1850-1980
Object number: 81.17.20
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.455
Three-faced helmet mask
Ejagham
late 19th century
Object number: 81.17.506
Single-faced Crest mask
Nigerian/Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.508
Photo: Paul Macapia
Southwestern Yoruba
early 20th century
Object number: 81.17.585