Mask

Mask

Wood, pigment, and fiber
33 × 14 × 12 in. (83.8 × 35.6 × 30.5 cm)
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.828
Provenance: {Possibly collected by the Pères Blancs (Missionaries of Africa)}; [Harvey T. Menist Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands]; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1968; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
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., p. 135, 140, reproduced pl. 176.

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