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Female figure

Female figure

Maker Kaka
Object number81.17.713
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. 53-54, reproduced pl. 60 (as standing female figure). Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Praise Poems: The Katherine White Collection, July 29 - Sept. 29, 1984 (Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 31, 1984 - Feb. 25, 1985; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Apr. 6 - May 19, 1985; Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, Sept. 7 - Nov. 25, 1985; Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mar. 8 - Apr. 20, 1986). Text by Pamela McClusky. Cat. no. 19, pp. 46-47, reproduced.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions20 1/4 x 6 7/8 x 6 11/16 in. (51.5 x 17.5 x 17 cm)
MediumWood, leather
Photo: Paul Macapia
Cameroonian
19th century
Object number: 81.17.718
Photo: Paul Macapia
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Object number: 81.17.711
Photo: Paul Macapia
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Object number: 81.17.225.1
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Object number: 81.17.597
Photo: Paul Macapia
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