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Ibibio and Annang

Fearsome First Daughter (Adiaha Unak) Mask for the Ekpo Association

Ibibio or Annang, 1900

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Fearsome First Daughter (Adiaha Unak) Mask for the Ekpo Association

Ibibio or Annang, 1900

Physical Qualities Wood, 12 5/16 x 8 11/16 x 6 5/16 in. (31.2 x 22 x 16 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1954.145.52
"Meditations on African Art: Color," April 18, 2007-August 19, 2007, BMA, Karen Milbourne.

African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
Karen Milbourne, "Meditations on African Art: Color," Exhibition Brochure, April 18 - August 19, 2007, cover, ill.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, 189, ill.
BMA Today, Winter 2005/2006, ill. p. 10
Stepan, Peter. "Picasso's Collection of African and Oceanic Art: Masters of Metamorphis." Prestel, 2006: illus, p. 33.

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