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Bell (Omo)
Bell (Omo)

Bell (Omo)

Object number81.17.501
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. 129-30, reproduced pl. 166 (as bell).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions5 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 1 15/16 in. (14.6 x 6 x 5 cm)
MediumCast copper alloy (cire perdue)
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Benin Kingdom
19th century
Object number: 81.17.503
Knife and sheath
Object number: 81.17.629
Necklace (Mbombo)
Object number: 81.17.749
Object number: 81.17.1325
Bell
Object number: 81.17.1342
Object number: 81.17.1634
Object number: 81.17.1635
Object number: 81.17.1636
Object number: 81.17.1637