Mask (Mbuto)

Datebefore 1932

Object number81.17.785

ProvenanceCollection of Isidor Kahane (1921-2004), Zürich, Switzerland, and New York; 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. 131, reproduced fig. J-2 (as "mbuto" mask). 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. 46, pp. 100-01, reproduced.

Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

Dimensions27 1/16 x 14 3/16 x 11 5/8 in. (68.7 x 36 x 29.5 cm)

MediumWood, pigment, reed, and fiber