Kota Janiform Reliquary Guardian Figure
mbulu viti

Kota Janiform Reliquary Guardian Figure mbulu viti - now in the collection of the The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City  - image 1

Kota peoples, Gabon
Wood, brass, copper, iron
19th century
Height: 63 cm

Provenance
Commander Foufé [before 1914]
Private Collection, France (by descent)
Guy Loudmer, Paris
Marc and Denyse Ginzberg, New York

Selected Exhibition History
Permanent Collection: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
[Accession No. F99-20]

Selected Publication History
Joyce M. Youmans, 'African Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art', in: African Arts, Vol XXXIII, no 4, 2000, p 61
Marc Ginzberg, The African Art Collection of Marc and Denyse Ginzberg, New York, 2003, figs 44A and 44B

Acquired from Entwistle by
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City