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Janiform figure
Janiform figure

Janiform figure

Object number81.17.543
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. 87 (as standing figure).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions14 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (36.8 x 8.3 x 6.4 cm)
MediumWood
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Seated female fetish figure
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Photo: Paul Macapia
Polynesian
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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Polynesian
Object number: 81.17.1423
Photo: Paul Macapia
Melanesian
19th century
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Kneeling Male Power Figure (Nkondi)
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