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Headrest
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Headrest

Maker Luba
Object number81.17.879
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. 92, 95, reproduced pl. 126 (as head-rest).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions5 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (14 x 14 x 8.9 cm)
MediumWood
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