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Figurated Tusk

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Figurated Tusk

Ivory
6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm)
Diam.: 1 7/16 in.
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.831
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
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. 70-71, reproduced pl. 96 (as carving).

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