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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BEULAH WOODARD (1895 - 1955) Masai Warrior.
Clay painted black, circa 1935. Approximately 265x204x172 mm; 10 1/2x8x7 inches. Incised signature "Woodard," lower right base.
Exhibited in her one-woman show at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1935. Her 8 week exhibit of clay sculpture and papier mâché masks decorated with elaborate beads and feathers and based on her own research, attracted notice of Los Angeles newspapers and eventually the Associated Press. Thousands came to see such works as Queen, Fulah Kunda, Bapotos Chief, Ubangi Woman and Medicine Man.
