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Mask

Datebefore 1932
Object number81.17.705
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. 146, reproduced fig. K-1.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions23 1/4 x 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (59.1 x 35.8 x 25.7 cm)
MediumWood and pigment
Mask
Kom
20th century
Object number: 2001.1057
Mask
Kom
Object number: 81.17.695
Bird mask
Kom
Object number: 81.17.694
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