Suah Buah (large dance) mask

Mambila

Cameroon

Wood, pigment, and fiber

9 x 7 x 20 1/16 in. (22.9 x 17.8 x 50.9 cm)

Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

81.17.707

Provenance: Acquired by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1969 (location unknown); bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981

Not currently on view

Resources

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. 143 (as "suah buah" mask).

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