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Bowl
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Bowl

Object number81.17.729
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. 92, 95, reproduced pl. 127 (as food bowl).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm) L.: 7 3/8 in. Diam.: 5 7/8 in.
MediumTerracotta
Pipe stem and bowl
Cameroon
Object number: 81.17.636
Dan
Object number: 81.17.209
Bowl
Dan
Object number: 81.17.210
South African
Object number: 81.17.1277
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.548
Container lid (Erinle)
Yoruba
Object number: 81.17.622
Bamileke
Object number: 81.17.739
Bamileke
Object number: 81.17.741
Photo: Scott Leen
Cameroon
Object number: 84.232