Bwete reliquary figure

Bwete reliquary figure

Wood and brass
21 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (54 x 19.1 x 7 cm)
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.786
location
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., pp. 154, 157, reproduced pl. 191 (as "bweti" guardian figure).

Published ReferencesMcClusky, Pamela. African Art: From Crocodiles to Convertibles in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1987; cat. no. 6, p. 14, reproduced (as Reliquary guardian).

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