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Vertical mask (Sukuru)

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Vertical mask (Sukuru)

Wood and pigment
40 1/4 x 13 x 14 5/8 in. (102.2 x 33 x 37.2 cm)
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.708
Provenance: [Gallery K, Los Angeles, California]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1975; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, Feb. 13 - July 24, 2011 (Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Sept. 14 - Feb. 12, 2012; Stanford, California, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, May 16 - Sept. 2, 2012).
Published ReferencesBerns, Marla C.; Richard Fardon, Sidney Littleton Kasfir, editors, Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Plate 14.2, pg. 438

Herreman, Frank. Mumuye Sculpture from Nigeria: The Human Figure Reinvented. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2016; p. 24, reproduced fig. 12.

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