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Headdress

Object number81.17.794
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. 154, 157, reproduced pl. 192 (as head).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions4 15/16 x 1 9/16 x 1 15/16 in. (12.5 x 4 x 5 cm)
MediumWood and pigment
Headdress (Nwanza)
Object number: 81.17.522
Headdress (Ekine Society)
Object number: 81.17.530
Headdress (Egungun)
Object number: 81.17.581
Headdress
Object number: 81.17.582
Antelope Headdress
20th century
Object number: SC87.114
Headdress
Object number: 81.17.1026
Photo: Paul Macapia
Nigerian/Cameroonian
Object number: 81.17.507
Headdress
Object number: 81.17.509
Headdress (Okeneken)
Object number: 81.17.531
Leopard Headdress
Object number: 81.17.700