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Maker Bum
Object number81.17.703
ProvenanceLikely collected by [Paul Gebauer, Cameroon]; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1964; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
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., pp. 177, 179, reproduced pl. 217.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions17 1/2 x 11 13/16 x 11 in. (44.4 x 30 x 28 cm)
MediumWood and pigment
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
Makonde
Object number: 81.17.1222