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Tripod backrest
Tripod backrest

Tripod backrest

Object number81.17.894
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. 84-85, reproduced pl. 114 (as back-rest).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions16 1/2 x 19 3/4 x 29 in. (41.9 x 50.2 x 73.6 cm)
MediumWood and brass nails
Kuba
Object number: 2001.94
Kuba
Object number: 2001.106
Kuba
20th century
Object number: 2001.107
Kuba
Object number: 2001.108
Stool
Surinam
Object number: 81.17.1405
Headdress
Ekoi
Object number: 81.17.509
Headdress (Ekine Society)
Nigerian
Object number: 81.17.530
Photo: Scott Leen
Igbo
Object number: 2005.63
Corner Oriented Bentwood Box
Native American
19th century
Object number: 91.1.94
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Herbert Johnson
ca. 1890
Object number: 91.1.31