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Adze
Adze

Adze

Object number81.17.895
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. 146, reproduced fig. K-2 (as ceremonial adze).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions15 3/16 x 3 9/16 x 12 5/16 in. (38.5 x 9.1 x 31.3 cm)
MediumWood and metal
late 19th century
Object number: 2024.19.250
Object number: 81.17.1181
Object number: 81.17.553
Horse puppet
Bamana
Object number: 81.17.28
Ma kpon
Dan
Object number: 81.17.205
Photo: Paul Macapia
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.907
Staff
Tanzanian
20th century
Object number: 2003.104
Headrest
20th century
Object number: 81.17.1034