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Adze

Adze

Wood and metal
15 3/16 x 3 9/16 x 12 5/16 in. (38.5 x 9.1 x 31.3 cm)
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.895
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., p. 146, reproduced fig. K-2 (as ceremonial adze).

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