Suah Buah (Large Dance) Mask with costume

Object number81.17.706

ProvenanceCollection of Gilbert Schneider (1920-1999), Athens, Ohio, likely by 1963; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1967; 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., p. 143, reproduced pl. 182 (as "suah buah" mask).

Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

Dimensions18 11/16 x 10 5/16 x 13 1/4 in. (47.4 x 26.2 x 33.6 cm)

MediumWood, raffia, twine, pigments, and bamboo