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Axe
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Axe

Object number81.17.911
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. 143-4, reproduced pl. 184 (as ceremonial axe).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions15 11/16 x 2 11/16 x 12 1/2 in. (39.8 x 6.8 x 31.8 cm)
MediumWood and iron
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.1675
Axe
Object number: 81.17.603
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.1676
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1477
Congolese
Object number: 2001.962
Object number: 81.17.1181
Photo by Tom Joyce
19th century
Object number: 2007.212
Photo by Tom Joyce
Ghanaian
Object number: 2007.239
Photo by Tom Joyce
Ghanaian
Object number: 2007.242