Provenance
Private Collection, United Kingdom
Margaret Webster Plass, London and Philadelphia
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City
Entwistle, London
George and Rosemary Lois, New York
Selected Exhibition History
1 December 1947-31 January 1948, London, Berkeley Galleries, Ancient Benin
21 June-20 July 1949, London, Royal Anthropological Institute, Traditional Art of the British Colonies
1951, London, Colonial Office at the Imperial Institute, Traditional Art from the Colonies
1953, London, King Edward VII Galleries, British Museum, The Webster Plass Collection of African Art
17 September 2004 -2 January 2005, New York, Museum for African Art, Material Differences. Art and Identity in Africa
26 February-3 June 2012, Zürich, Museum Rieberg, Helden: Ein neuer Blick auf die Kunst Afrikas
Selected Publication History
Berkeley Galleries, Ancient Benin, London, 1947, cover and cat 14
William Fagg, The Webster Plass Collection of African Art, London, 1953, pl XXVI, cat 81
Frank Herreman, ed., Material Differences, Art and Identity in Africa, New York, 2003, p 8, cat 1
Alisa LaGamma, Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures, New York, 2011, pp 24-25, cat 17