Ekpo (Dead ancestor) Society Mask: Idiok (ugly/fierce) type

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Ekpo (Dead ancestor) Society Mask: Idiok (ugly/fierce) type

Object number81.17.536

Provenance[Berkeley Galleries, London, England]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1961; 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. 130, reproduced fig. J-1 (as mask). Bellingham, Washington, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Masks: Facing the World, July 30 - Nov. 8, 1987. Los Angeles, California, The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Ways of The Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta, May 18 - Nov. 17, 2002.

Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

Dimensions12 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (31.1 x 13.3 x 10.8 cm)

MediumWood, bamboo, and fiber