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Suah Buah (large dance) mask

Object number81.17.707
ProvenanceAcquired by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1969 (location unknown); bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
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. 143, reproduced pl. 143 (as "suah buah" mask).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions9 x 7 x 20 1/16 in. (22.9 x 17.8 x 50.9 cm)
MediumWood, pigment, and fiber
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1457
Photo: Susan Cole
Melanesian
Object number: 81.17.1469
Lion Mask
Bamana
1850-1980
Object number: 81.17.20
Mask
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.828
Mask (Lukwakongo type)
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.861
20th century
Object number: 81.17.1227
Serpent mask
Object number: 81.17.86
Mask
late 19th-early 20th century
Object number: 81.17.192
Mask
Object number: 81.17.513
Mask
Object number: 81.17.521