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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
Bamileke
Object number: 81.17.696
Mask
Bamileke
Object number: 81.17.701
Elephant Mask
Bamileke
Object number: 81.17.693
Photo: Paul Macapia
Yoruba
1920-40
Object number: 81.17.587
Photo: Scott Leen
Congolese
20th century
Object number: 2004.107
Mask
Wurkun
20th century
Object number: 97.62
Photo: Paul Macapia
Yoruba
Object number: 81.17.584
Single-faced Crest mask
Nigerian/Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.508
Female spirit mask (kpan)
Ivorian
Object number: 51.14
Serpent mask
Burkina Faso
Object number: 81.17.86
Face mask (Kpelie-yehe)
Ivorian
Object number: 81.17.259