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Harp

Object number81.17.851
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. 154-5, reproduced pl. 189. Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Music for the Eyes: The Fine Art of African Musical Instruments, Sept. 15, 1999 - July 31, 2000.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions30 x 11 x 10 13/16 in. (76.2 x 28 x 27.4 cm)
MediumWood and cane
Female harp
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.882.1
Male harp
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.882.2
Object number: 2001.153
Melanesian
Object number: 78.7
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1475
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1502
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1503
Congolese
Object number: 2001.957
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.807