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Staff

Object number81.17.912
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. 64-65, reproduced pl. 83. Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples, Nov. 1, 1998 - Jan. 16, 2000.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions14 1/2 x 3 in. (36.83 x 7.6 cm)
MediumWood
Photo: Paul Macapia
Chokwe
Object number: 81.17.913
Chief's throne
Chokwe
19th or early 20th century
Object number: 81.17.916
Ladle
Chokwe
Object number: 81.17.917
Ceremonial Staff; Female Torso
Chokwe
Object number: 67.109
Whistle worn as amulet
Chokwe
Object number: 68.80
Young girl mask: (Mwana Pwo)
Chokwe
20th century
Object number: 74.64
Whistle
Chokwe
Object number: 81.17.1630
Ceremonial Scepter:  Female Head
Chokwe
Object number: 68.134
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Polynesian
early 19th century
Object number: 60.100
Staff
Tanzanian
20th century
Object number: 2003.104
Sierra Leone
Object number: 2005.84
South African
Object number: 81.17.1269