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Buffalo Headdress

Kom

Buffalo Headdress

Kom, 1900

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Kom

Buffalo Headdress

Kom, 1900

Physical Qualities Wood, 18 x 11 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (45.7 x 28.3 x 20 cm.)
Credit Line Friends of Art Fund
Object Number 1973.69
Purchased from Jakaria Sillah
"Meditations on African Art: Color," April 18, 2007-August 19, 2007, BMA, Karen Milbourne.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.163, ill.

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