Chokwe Chief with Thumb Piano mwanangana

Chokwe Seated Chief with Thumb Piano  - now in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - image 1

Chokwe peoples, Angola
Wood: Wild Loquat -(Uapaca kirkiana), cloth, fiber, beads
19th century
Height: 42.5 cm

Provenance
Collected by F.A. Goncalves Cardoso (1866-1869)
Private Collection, Portugal
Loudmer-Poulain, Paris

Selected Exhibition History
Permanent Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
[Accession No. 1988.157]

Selected Publication History
Marie-Louise Bastin, La Sculpture Tshokwe, Meudon, 1982, p 136, fig 74

Acquired from Entwistle by
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Chokwe Seated Chief with Thumb Piano  - now in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - image 1 Chokwe Seated Chief with Thumb Piano  - now in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - image 2 Chokwe Seated Chief with Thumb Piano  - now in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - image 3